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'Directors 

DAVID B. POWELL 

EUGENE BRITTON 

SEYMOUR L. HUSTED, Jr. 
WM. E. PHILIPS 

WILLIAM BERRI 

DAVID J. EVANS 
DAVID F. MANNING 

JOHN L. HEINS 

W. D. SARGENT 

CHARLES T. YOUNG 

THEO. M, TOWL 

Capital, $300,000 

Surplus and Profits, - 550,000 



NEW YORK 

A Guide in Gomoreliensive GliaDters 



BY 

CROMWELL CHILDE 
Editor of "Trolley Exploring" 



THE NEW YORK OF 
FASHION -WHOLESALE TRADE— HISTORY 
AND LANDMARKS-SHOPS— 
FINANCE-AMUSEMENTS— SIGHTS- 
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS — CLUBS - 
RELIGION —TRANSIT— FOREIGN QUARTERS 
—NEW YORK BY NIGHT 

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Vol. XVIIT, No. 4, SERIAL No. 76 OF THE Eagle Library 

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Copyrighted 1903 



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CONTENTS 



•<^ Maps on i)agcs 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. 

V> CHAPTERS PAGE 

oi This Handbook's Making 15 

^1^ In General 15 

.^ Streets and Avenues 16 

<S5^ The Way To Get To 17 

Gateways Into New York 18 

Boarding Houses and Hotels 19 

Rapid Transit, Tunnels, Bridges 20 

Sights 21 

Fashionable New York 23 

New York of the Shops 26 

New York by Night 28 

New York Clubdom 29 

Religious New York 30 

The New York of History and Landmarks 36 

Galleries, Museums, Theatres and Music 39 

Madison Square Garden 40 

Metropolitan Museum of Art 41 

Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. 43 

American Museum of Natural History 44 

Additional Art Interests 46 

Brooklyn Institute 47 

Libraries 47 

Education 48 

The New York of Finance 49 

The New York of Wholesale Trade 52 

The Water Front and Manufacturing 55 

The Hotels 58 

New York's Parks and Drives 60 

Botanical Gardens and Zoological Park 63 

Monuments, Statues, Arches 63 

The Government and Politics 65 

Items of Note About New York 66 

Coney Island 68 

Charities and Hospitals 70 

"The Tenderloin" -di Q- • i -w; i 

New York's Foreign Quarters yi 

New York's Countryside and TroUeying - -^3 

Forts About New York ."T. . ifi 

Racing 74 

The Navy Yard 74 

Street Car and "L " Lines 75 

Cemeteries 76 




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SILAS B. DUTCHER, President 

WILLIAM BERRI, Vice-President 

JOSEPH B. WHITE, 2d Vice-Pres. and Secy. 

GEORGE HADDEN, Assistant Secretary 

BOARD OF TRUSTEES 

William Bekri John Ditmas, Jr. Thos. E. Pearsall 

Lucius H. Biglow P. H. Flynn Fred. H. Pouch 

Ezra D. Bushnell John R. Hegeman David B. Powell 

David F. Butcher Hy. E Hutchinson Millard F. Smith 

EVERSLEY CHILDS W. C. HUMSTONE "Wm. V. R. SMITH 

Charles Cooper J(ihn C. McGuire T. L. Woodruff 
Silas B. Dutchkr Kug. F. O'Connor Joseph B. White 
William H. Davol John N. Partridge Henry N. Whitney 



Capital, Surplus, and Undivided Profits, 
Over $1,425,000 

PAYS LIBERAL INTEREST ON DAILY BALANCES 
HIGHER RATES PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS 

Acts as Trustee and Transfer Agent for Cofporations, 

Authorized to Act as Guardian, Executor and 

Administrator. Wills legally prepared 

and safely kept. 



FAMILY AND BUSINESS ACCOUNTS SOLICITED 



INDEX 



{See also chapter headivf^s^ pcij^e 3.) 



PAGE 

Academy of Design 46 

Amsterdam Ave 17 

Annekc Jans Farm 38 

Apartment Hotels 59 

Apartment Houses 59 

Aquarium 22 

Armories 67 

Arsenal 67 

Assay Office 50 

Astor Library 22 

Astors (The) 25 

Asylums 70 

Athletic Grounds 67 

Banks of New York n 

Banks 51 

Barnard College 48 

Blackwell's Island 70 

Boulevard 17 

Bower}'- 28 

Bowling Green 2>7 

Brighton Beach 66 

Broadway 15, 49 

Bronx (Borough) .... 16, 18 

Bronx Park 60 

Brooklyn (Borough)... 16, 18 

Brooklyn Borough Hall.. 66 

Brooklyn Bridge 17 

Brooklvn "Heights" 26 

Brooklyn "Hill" 26 

"Brownsville" 71 

Calvary Cemetery 76 

Carnegie, Andrew 25 

Carnegie Building 40 

Carnegie Libraries 47 

Central Park 15, 60 

Central Park South 17 

Central Park West 17 

Century Club 29 

Chamber of Commerce. . . 50 
Charity Organization So- 
ciety 70 

"Chinatown" 28 

Churches 30 

City Departments 65 

City Hall. 17 

Claremont 60 

"Colonies" 71 

Columbia University 22 

Columbus Ave 17 

Commerce 52 



PAGE 

Coney Island 68 

Cooper Union 22 

Cypress Hills Cemetery. . . 76 

Debtors' Prison 36 

Delmonico's 24 

Denominational Headquar- 
ters ^ 35 

Department Stores 26 

Dining Clubs 29 

Docks 56 

"East Side" (The) 17 

Eighth Ave 28 

Ellis Island 22 

Evergreens Cemetery. ... -](> 

Fifth Ave. ■. 15 

iMfth Ave. Hotel. ... 58, 66 

Fine Arts Federation. ... 46 

"Flatiron" (The) 22 

Forest Park 61 

Fort Greene 62 

Fraunces Tavern 17 

Garden City Cathedral. ... 35 

Ghetto (The) 28 

Goulds (The) .... 24, 25, 51 

Grand Central Station. ... 18 

Grant's Tomb 22 

Greenwood Cemetery 

16, 21, 76 

Hack Fares 19 

"Hall of Fame" 22 

Hall of Records 65 

Harlem River 60 

Hell Gate 21 

Hester St 17 ^ 

High Bridge 22 

Holland House 24 

Hotel for Women 59 

Hudson Park 62 

Hudson River 17 

John St. M. E. Church. . 2,^ 

Kidd (Captain) 3,7 

"Klein Deutschland" 72 



Handbook of New York. 



Index. 



{See also chapter /wcm/i/igs, pai^e 3.) 



PAGE 

Lenox Ave 17 

Lenox Library 22 

"Little Hungary" 72 

Long Island Historical So- 
ciety 46 

Long Island R. R 18 

Low Library 22 

Lutheran Cemetery 76 

Madison Ave 17 

Madison Square Garden.. 40 

Manhattan (Borough). 15, 18 

Manhattan Beach 66 

Markets 53 

Martin's 24 

Masonic Temples 66 

Medical Schools 49 

Mendelssohn Hall 41 

Metropolitan Opera House. 40 

Morgan, J. Pierpont.. 25, 50 

Mulberry Bend 17 

Newspapers 67 

New York Historical So- 
ciety 45 

New York Public Library.. 24 

New York University. ... 22 

Obelisk (The) 64 

Ocean Parkway 61 

Office Buildings 50, 66 

"Old Trinit3%" see Trinity. 

Oratorio Society 41 

Park Ave 17 

Parkhurst, Dr 30 

Pennsylvania R. R. . . 18, 20 

Philharmonic Society. ... 41 

Plymouth Church 31 

Police Headquarters 66 

Potter (Bishop) 2^, 30 

Pratt Institute . 22 

Produce Exchange 55 

Prospect Park 61 

Public Bath Houses 66 

Public Schools 48 

Queens (Borough) 18 

Railroads 54 

Recreation Piers 67 

Rialto (The) 71 

Richmond (Borough) .... 18 

Riverside Drive 60 

Rockaway Beach (y-/ 

Rockefellers (The) ... 25, 51 

Russian Orthodox Church. 71 



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I Sailors' Snug Harbor 22 

St. John the Divine (Ca- 
thedral) 17. 30 

St. Nicholas Ave 17 

St. Patrick's (Cathedral) 17, 31 

St. Paul's Chapel 36 

St. Thomas' Church 24 

Seminaries (religious) ... 49 

"Settlements" 66 

Sherry's 24 

Shipping 56 57 

Skyscrapers 66 

"Slums" 17 

"Society" 23 

Soldiers and Sailors' Me- 
morial Arch 63 

Soldiers and Sailors' Mon- 
ument 64 

Staten Island •. 18 

Statue of Liberty 21 

Steamboats 67 

Stock Exchange 49 

Stuyvesant's (Peter) Tomb 17 

Suburbs 66 

Synagogues 30 

Tammany Hall 66 

Technical Schools 49 

Tombs (The) 65 

Trinity Cemetery 76 

Trinity Church 17, 31 

Trinity Churchyard 31 

"Trolley Exploring" 7^ 

Trust Companies 51 

Union Club 24 

Union League Club 24 

ITniversity Club 24 

U. S. Sub Treasury Z7 

Van Cortlandt Park 60 

Vanderbilts (The) 2^, 24, 51 

Vanderbilt Tomb 23 

Waldorf-Astoria 24 

Wall St 17, 49 

Warehouses 56 

Wares and Curios. . . . 27, 28 

Washington Arch 22 

Washington Bridge 22 

Washington Square 23 

"Water Exploring" 7;^ 

Whitneys (The) 25 

Williamsburgh Bridge. ... 18 

Woodlawn (Cemetery 76 



Sage (Russell) 51 



Y. M. C. A. 
Y. W. C. A. 



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EAGLE SAVINGS 

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Capital and Surplus, over $900,000.00 

Pays 4 per cent, per annum, July and January, on Savings 

Accounts. 
Pays 5 per cent, per annum, semi annually, on Investment 

Accounts. 
Pays on Monthly Accumulative Accounts from 2 to 8 per 

cent, per annum, according to number of months^ deposits 

regularly made. 
Beginning at any time. Loans on improved local Real 

Estate, payable in J44 monthly payments. 



EDWAKD E. BRITTON, President 

ELWIN S. PIPER, First Vice-President 

EDWARD M. CHILD, Second Vice-President 
JAMES 'I'. ASHLEY, Secy, and Treas. 

JOSEPH WOOD, Assistant Secretary 



TRUSTEES 



Paul Grout 
Amos H. Cropsey 
Elwin S. Piper 
James H. Ferguson 
Edward E. Britton 
Frederick H. Schroeder 



Richard H. Laimbeer, Jr. 
James A, Ashley 
George J. Jardin 
Edward M. Child 
John T. Rafferty 
Louis Beer 



General Counsel, MESSRS. Carr & Grout 



OPEN MONDAYS UNTIL EIGHT P. M. 




. SANDY HOOK 
^LIGHTSHIP 



FROM BATTERY TO 67th STREET 




MAP OF MANHATTAN BOROUGH 



FROM 68th street to 181st STREET 




Showing Railroad and Ferry Lines 
AND Asphalt Paved Streets -»*•'- 




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THE NEW EAGLE BUILDING. 




THIS HANDBOOK'S MAKING 

OST guides do not "guide." With the exception 
of John Murray's and Karl Baedeker's fam- 
ous volumes, without which European tours 
would not be complete, nearly all present 
merely masses of undigested facts, many of 
these of little or no interest, compiled gener- 
ally by writing "hacks." These Eagle Hand- 
books of Cities are an attempt to make little 
city books for resident and traveler that 
shall be of real value. 

Every city has its especial characteristics, its points most 
worthy of note. It is the life of a metropolitan centre, fashion- 
able, commercial, artistic, historical, that interests us the most of 
all. There are scores of sides that must be peered at. New 
York is now so great that it has become like London, no one 
knows it completely. The same might be said of any other 
American centre — Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Wash- 
ington, San Francisco, Denver, New Orleans, Buffalo, Cleveland, 
Cincinnati, Detroit. 

This handbook, therefore, is quite as much for New Yorkers 
as for visitors to New York. 

Other handbooks already published are A Guide to Washing- 
ton, D. C. ; A Guide to Paris, France. 



IN GENERAL 

" Manhattan," one of New York city's boroughs, is one of the 
simplest places in the world to find one's way about and to enjoy, 
if only certain facts are kept in mind. The centre of all things is 
the street or avenue Broadway, which geographically divides New 
York into east and west, from far "down town" near the "Bat- 
tery" to 23d St., where the fashionable Fifth Ave. becomes the 
dividing line. For tourist and resident alike, this junction of 
Broadway, Fifth Ave. and 23d St. is the city's central point. 
About half way up Manhattan Island, in a space three wide city 
blocks broad and 51 blocks long, is the famous Central Park. 



16 



Handbook of Nezu York. 




THE "millionaires'" (METROPOLITAN) CLUB, 60TH STREET 
AND FIFTH AVENUE. 

Fifth Ave. runs along the eastern edge of this, and here is the 
newly fashionable section of the metroi'Olis. West of the Park is 
another great residential section. Below the Parjc are other fine 
residences, along with clubland and apartment houses of elegance; 
below them the theatres and the shops, and, further down, after 
23d St. is reached, the varying wholesale trades, manufacturing 
plants, the foreign quarters, the commerce along the river fronts 
and the Bay. 

_ This is Manhattan Island in brief, but one-fifth of the actual 
city of New York, merely one of its five boroughs or govern- 
mental divisions, the old city of New York, a narrow 
island less than three miles wide at its broadest point, some 13 
miles long. Brooklyn and the Bronx (two other boroughs) have 
fine parks, and Brooklyn one of the first of American cemeteries 
(Greenwood), highly interesting foreign quarters, several of the 
greatest department stores of the world, remarkable manufac- 
turing plants and a great commercial water front, besides many 
delightful residential streets. 



STREETS AND AVENUES 

{It must be remembered that from this point on, unless other- 
■wise stated, the borough of Manhattan, Manhattan Island alone, 
is being referred to). Except in the lower portion of the city 
the streets are numbered and not named. The smaller the 
street's number the lower or further down Broadway is it to be 
found. In the same waj' the most of the avenues have been 



Streets and Avenues. ^ 17 

given numbers rather than names. The numbered avenues begin 
on the east side of the city, First Ave. being close to the East 
River, Thirteenth Ave. along the Hudson River's water front, 
Madison Ave. is between Fifth and Fourth, Lexington between 
Fourth and Third. Above 34th St., Fourth Ave. becomes Park 
Ave.; above 59th St. Ninth Ave. Columbus, and Tenth Ave., 
Amsterdam. Sixth Ave., stopped by Central Park at 59th St., 
becomes Lenox Ave. above the Park. St. Nicholas Ave. is a 
driving road that begins at Lenox Ave. and Central Park, and 
runs northwest. Broadway above 59th St. was formerly known 
as tlie P.oulevard. It is still called that unofficially. 

The avenues, it should be remembered, run vip and down, the 
streets across the city from river to river. Numbers east and 
west in the cross streets mean east and west of Fifth Ave. 

Thus 20 East is close to Fifth Ave., 220 East 

— — two blocks across the city from Fifth Ave. Allow 100 
numbers from avenue to avenue. East is to the right hand fac- 
ing uptown, to the left when you are facing downtown. Even 
resident New Yorkers frequently get tangled between West and 
East. 

Note — On the west side of Central Park, however, between 
59th St. and iioth, the numbers start from Eighth Ave., here 
known as Central Park West. 59th St. along the Park is Cen- 
tral Park South. Fifth Ave. along the Park is frequently 
spoken of as New York's "Park Lane," though it has not that 
name officially. 

With these facts well digested tourist and resident need con- 
sult no map. 

THE WAY TO GET TO— 

Wall Street — See chapter, "The New York of Finance." 

Brooklyn Bridge — See following page. 

The City Hall — See following page and chapter, "Government 

and Politics." 
Fraunces' Tavern, Peter Stuyvesant's Tomb — See chapter, 

"The New York of History and Landmarks." 
The Bronx — See following page and chapter, "New York's 

Parks and Drives." 
Central Park — See chapter, "New York's Parks and Drives." 
Trinity Church, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, St. 

Patrick's — See chapter, "Religious New York." 
The East Side, Hester Street, Mulberry Bend — See chapter, 

"New York's Foreign Quarters." 
The "Tenderloin" — See chapter thereon. 



18 IJandhooh of Nc7V York. 

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Historical Society, 
American Museum of Natural History, Brooklyn In- 
stitute, etc. — See chapter, "Galleries, Museums, Thea- 
tres and Music." 

Botanical Garden and Zoological Park — See chapter on them. 



The five "boroughs" of New York are Manhattan, the Bronx 
(to tlic north of Manliattan Island), Brooklyn (across the East 
River, to the east), Oueens, and Richmond (Staten Island). 
The Bronx is to be reached from Manhattan by Elevated system 
(any line) or by trolley (Second or Third Ave. lines the most 
expeditious way), Staten Island by ferry from the Battery, 
Oueens by ferries from the foot of East ^4th, g2d and iioth 
Sts. Some fourteen ferries cross the East River from Manhattan 
to Brooklyn, the most important running from the Battery, the 
foot of Wall, Fulton, Grand, East -23d and East 426. Sts. There 
is, besides, for those Brooklyn bound the famous Brooklyn 
Bridge facing City Hall Park. To reach this, take from any- 
where u])tovvn either the Third. Second, Madison. Sixth, .Eighth 
Aves. or Broadway trolley cars or the Elevated (any line) and 
tell conductor or brakeman that your destination is City Hall 
and Bridge. 

Three other bridges are now being built across the East 
River, and three tunnels are to be run under it. The furthest 
advanced of these, \\'illiamsl)urgh Bridge, will be finished in 
the early part of 1904. 

To get to Jersey from New York take one of the railroad 
ferries (see section immediately below, "Gateways into New 
York.") The Pennsylvania ferry from the foot of West 23d bt. 
is the most central. Thence trolley cars may be taken to 
Newark, and with a short break or two to Philadelphia and 
Baltimore. 

// confused or lost in New York, get to Droaihvay at once. 
Unless you are far uplozvn or far over in the East Side section 
it can never be a great distance away. 

GATEWAYS INTO NEW YORK 
1"hc visitor to New York has many gateways open to him. 
Coming l^y way of Jersey City always take the uptown ferry. 
This saves a long journey through New York streets (unless 
boimd for Brooklyn when inquire for Brooklyn Annex, landing 
foot of Fulton St., Brooklyn). The New Vork Central, the 
Harlem, and the New York, New Haven and Hartford are the 
only ^railroads that to-day set down their passengers in the heart 
of New York. Their depot (the Grand Central Station) is at 
42d St. and Fourth (Park) Ave., four blocks east of Broadway. 
The Pennsylvania R.R. and the Long Island R.R. are, however, 
about to commence tunnels under the Hudson (the North) and 
the East Rivers, and will have a huge union station at Seventh 



Gateways into New York. 



19 



Ave. and 34th St., one block west of Broadway. Another tun- 
nel is in process of construction under the Hudson, through 
which the New Jersey trolley lines will enter New York. 

At present the Pennsylvania and the Erie land passengers by 
ferry at the foot of West 23d St., the Long Island R.R. at the 
foot of East 34th St., the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western 
and the West Shore at West 42d St. All these roads have 
down town landing points besides. The Baltimore and Ohio's 
ferry terminal is at the Battery, the Central R.R. of New 
Jersey at the foot of Liberty St. The majority of the steam- 
boat lines from South and East and down the Hudson have their 
piers on the Hudson shore front well down town. (See page 67.) 

Unless the traveler's pocket book is very plethoric, cabs are 
hardly worth while on arriving in New York. From nearly 
every train and steamer point the electric car service anywhere 
is excellent and speedy and transfers liberal. Inquiries are 
answered promptly and correctly. Theoretically cab and carriage 
hire is cheap in New York (legally 50 cents per mile, by time 




THE KIOSK IN HUDSON PARK (HUDSON AND l.EROY 
streets), ONE OF NEW VORK's '^ SMALL PARKS." 



$1.00 per hour for cabs holding 2; $1.00 per mile, by time $1.50 
per hour for coaches holding 4). But in practice, cabmen try 
to get much more, and for strangers who are not acquainted 
with distances it is difficult to bargain without disputes. The 
official railroad cabs at the stations are, however, quite re- 
liable. 

BOARDING HOUSES AND HOTELS 

Again, the stranger in New York should avoid, unless he is 
prepared to pay high prices, the most famous hotels. Many of 
those less noted are quite as comfortable and convenient. Under 
$5.00 a day it is difficult to get accommodations in the very 



20 Handbook of Ne-iv York. 

fashionable New \ ork hostelries. A room alone would cost 
nearly that figure, and with meals $io a day per person would 
be but an ordinary estimate. Of course with care at even the 
finest hotels expenses could be brought down lower than this, 
but not very much. In the most noted hotels the European 
plan is most in vogue, you pay for your room and separately 
for each meal (a la carte or table d'hote), taking these in the 
hotel or out of it as you prefer. At such places as these very 
fine hotel living in New York may be calculated for two at about 
$ioo a week. 

It is worth while, however, for the traveler to put up 
for a day or so at one of the great hotels, taking a room only. 
In that way the best possible idea may l)e had of the gorgeous- 
ness of metropolitan hotel life. 

But this need only be temporary. After a day amid magnifi- 
cence he can pick out one of the medium jiriced hotels, or 
better still some boarding house in the centre of the city. If 
he does not know of such a place he can procure a list without 
charge (including hotels as well) at one of the Brooklyn Eagle's 
Free Information Bureaus, 952 Broadway, near 23d St., Man- 
hattan and Eagle Building, Washington and Johnson Sts., 
Brooklyn. The Eagle people at either place will give him 
most careful and prompt attention, and furnish him with much 
travel literature. Nor will a needful passport to their considera- 
tion be this little book. 



RAPID TRANSIT, TUNNELS, BRIDGES 

The "subway," New York's new rapid transit system, is 
l>romised to be in operation January i, 1904. It will give 
genuine rapid transit to the metropolis, and relieve the strain on 
surface cars and elevateds. Commencing at City Hall and to meet 
here another tunnel under the East Kiver from Brooklyn, the 
Manhattan Island Underground will run under Elm St. (one block 
east of Broadway) to 8th St., then under Fourth Ave. to 42d, 
under 42d to Broadway, under Broadway to the northern point 
of Manhattan. A branch will break off from the main line 
just above the upper end of Central Park and run northeast 
under the Harlem River well up into the Bronx. 

The bringing of the Pennsylvania K.R. into New York will 
cost $50,000,000. On remodeling its terminal at 42d .St. and 
changing its power to electricity below the Harlem, the New 
York Central will spend $44,000,000. In Brooklyn the Long 
Island R.R. Is being removed from the surface of Atlantic Ave. 
by the construction of a tunnel and elevated structure, and an- 
other tunnel is to be built under the East River to connect with 
this at Flatbush and Atlantic Aves., carrying the Long Island 
R.R. on Manhattan Island, at a point near Maiden Lane and 
Broadway. 



Sights. 21 

More extensive rapid transit projects, however, are afoot. It 
is now planned to have a four track viaduct on West St., from 
Battery Place to 59th St. (for both passengers and freight), and 
thence northward over the Central's tracks; a subway under 
Broadway (or University Place, Wooster and Church Sts.), from 
42d St. to South Ferry; a three track tunnel from 42d St. under 
Lexington Ave. to the Bronx. 

Three bridges beside the present Brooklyn Bridge will soon 
scan the East River. The Williamsburgh Bridge (from De- 
lancey St. to Driggs Ave., near Broadway Brooklyn) is now 
well advanced toward completion. The bridge over Blackwell's 
Island, connecting 59th St. and Long Island City, has its piers 
well along. Bridge No. 3 (Manhattan Bridge), from Flatbush 
Ave. and Fulton St., Brooklyn, to Canal St. and the Bowery, 
has much of its caisson work done, but little is as yet visible. A 
fifth bridge, a large railroad bridge, is projected across Hell Gate 
or thereabouts, from the Bronx to Astoria, L. I. City. 



SIGHTS 

Under one topic or another, in the different chapters of this 
handbook, the Sights of New York have been taken up and 
sketched. There are many, though, that standing apart from 
these headings are yet to be enumerated. So characteristic are 
they of the varied activities and the full life of the metropolis 
that all should be seen. 

The canyons of lower Broadway and Nassau St., made by the 
skyscrapers. Walk up Broadway from Bowling Green, up Nassau 
from Wall St. 

Statue of Liberty on Bedloe's Island in the Upper Bay. View 
it from the Battery. A steamboat can be taken from here over 
to it if it is wished. From the Battery there is, besides, a 
splendid water panorama, and while in this locality, the Aquarium 
should be visited. This is in Battery Park. The building (re- 
modelled) is old Castle Garden, once the immigrants' landing 
place, long ago where Jenny Lind sung, where Lafayette was 
welcomed, where fashion congregated. 

Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn. Reached by "L" and Fifth 
Ave. trolley cars, New York end of Bridge. Perhaps the most 
noted of American "God's acres." Guides and stages at the 
main entrance. 



22 Handbook of Nciu York. 

Columbia University, Morningside Heights, West ii6th St., 
Manhattan, close to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. A 
magnificent group of buildings. The Low Library is the central 
feature. 

New York University, another group of college structures, 
Fordham Heights, overlooking Harlem River. Take Sixth Ave. 
"h" to 155th St., from there to University Heights station. 

"The Flatiron." Extraordinary new building, Broadway and 
23d St. On a triangular plot of ground, 22 stories high, comes 
to a sharp point where Broadway and Fifth Ave. meet. It looks 
as if it would topple over in a gale of wind, but it is scientifically 
safe. 

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. On Ryerson St. Take De Kalb 
Ave. car at Brooklyn Bridge. A celebrated technical school for 
boys and girls. All its departments can be inspected. 

High and Washington Bridges (over Harlem River). Sixth 
Ave. Elevated train to 155th St. 

Cooper Union, a great technical school. Third and Fourth 
Aves. and 8th St. One block east of Broadway. 

Washington Arch (Washington Square). Broadway car to 
Waverly Place. 

Astor Library, Lafayette Place. Take Third or Fourth Ave. 
or Broadway car. Get off at 8th St. Lenox Library, Fifth Ave. 
and 70th St., Madison Ave. car. 

Hall of Fame — In New York University, mentioned above 
in this chapter. For full details, see Eagle Almanac, 1903, page 
458. A colonnade of granite containing bronze tablets to great 
Americans. Twenty-nine Americans have already been chosen 
and tablets now immortalize them. Twenty-one more are to be 
selected in 1^05. Those already in the Hall of Fame include 
Washington, Emerson, Webster, Audubon, Gilbert Stuart, Lin- 
coln, Grant, Tefferson, Irving, Robert E. Lee, Franklin, Long- 
fellow, Clay and Hawthorne. 

Sailors' Snug Harbor — On Staten Island, New Brighton 
(Richmond Borough). Take ferry from Battery, then trolley car 
to entrance. A remarkable home on a great scale for disabled 
mariners. Founded 180T, and has a family of 880 old seamen. 
One of New York's chief sights. 

The Aquarium — See above in this chapter. Open every day 
from ic to 4. A truly splendid fish exhibit. 

Grant's Tomb — See chapter, " Monuments, Statues, Arches." 

Ellis Island — The landing place of all immigrants at the Port 
of New York. Out in the Upper Bay. Steamboat from the 
Battery. A vastly interesting picture of foreign peoples, the 



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peasantry of Europe. This island is called " The Gateway of 
America." 

Tomb of V'anderbilt, New Dorp, Staten Island. Take steam- 
cars from ferry terminus, St. George. It is here that Commodore 
Vanderbilt is buried, in the Moravian Cemetery. 





BISHOP POTTER. 



MRS. CORNELIUS VANDERBILT. 



TWO NOTED NEW YORKERS. 



FASHIONABLE NEW YORK 

The New York of the "fashionables" can be very accurately 
bounded and laid off geographically. Practically all "Society" 
lives to-day in a long, narrow strip centering on Fifth Ave., one 
block to the west, two to the east, including Madison Ave., from 
30th St. to 90th, between Sixth Ave. and Park Ave. The 
Upper West Side, despite the high ground, the superb river 
view and the many splendid mansions there, has never been 
.taken up. by fashion. It is above 59th St., along the side 
streets from Central Park to Madison Ave., that is "the real 
thing" for fashionable New York. 

A few families of position still live on Washington Square 
CFifth Avenue's end) and on the first few blocks of Fifth Ave., 



24 Handbook of Nezv York. 

hut these are not many. Within the past few years fashion has 
flocked up town with very few exceptions. Famous as Fifth 
Ave. itself will be for many years, as a street it has almost 
changed its character. Below 50th St. it is now little of a 
fashionable residence street. Up to 23d St. (Madison Square) 
it has become the street of the piano trade, of wholesale woolens; 
above the Square it is like Bond Street, London, of the cost- 
liest shops, for dress, adornment, curios, decoration. 

Up from Madison Square it is also the avenue of grand 
hotels, famous churches, clubs and some magnificent mansions. 
The New York Public Library is building at 40th to 42d St. 
At 26th St. is the Restaurant Martin, at 30th the Holland 
House, at 33d and 34th the Waldorf-Astoria, at 44th St. on op- 
posite corners the new Sherry's and the new Delmonico's. 

The Union Club has just moved to its new house at 51st 
St. on the old Orphan Asylum site, just above the Cathedral. 
At 29th St. is the Calumet Club, at 32d St. the Knickerbocker, 
at 35th St. the New York, at 39th the Union League, at 54th the 
University (with a "skyscraper" for its housing), at 60th the 
Metropolitan (known as the '"Millionaires'," on account of the 
character of its membership), the least used of any New 
York club. 

The houses of worship along the "avenue" include the Brick 
Presbyterian at 37th St. (Dr. Van Dyke's old church), St. 
Patrick's Cathedral (soth St), St. Thomas' (New York's most 
noted church for gorgeous weddings) at 43d, the Church of The 
Heavenly Rest at 45th St., and the two highly architectural 
Jewish tabernacles. Temple Emanu-El at 43d St. and Temple 
Beth-El at 76th. 

The mansions of "Society" actually on Fifth Ave. are few. 
Nearly all exclusive New York, the "400" of fame, reside 
on the side streets a few doors away. More fashionable people 
live on Park or Madison Aves. than on Fifth. Yet there are 
some dwellings of note on this social highway, across the street 
and a block above St. Patrick's the twin Vanderbilt mansions 
(occupying the entire block from 51st to 52d Sts.), on the 
corner above William K. Vanderbilt's, at 680 Dr. W. Seward 
Webb's, at 681 Ex- Vice-President Levi P. Morton, at 684 Ham- 
ilton McK. Twombly, at 720 Edwin Gould. Miss Helen Gould 
lives further down the avenue at 47th St. 

The houses at the corner of 57th St. front on 57th St., 
with the exception of that on the northwest corner which has 
one entrance in a big courtyard on 58th St. and is the residence 
of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt. The northeast corner was the 
home of the famous Mrs. Paran Stevens (now occupied by 



Fashionable Nezv York. 25 

Herman Oelrichs), the gloomy pile of gray granite opposite was 
lived in by the late Collis P. Huntington, and Harry Payne 
Whitney, son of William C. Whitney, has the southwest corner. 

Here the Park begins and the old Fifth Ave. ends. The new 
section (above sgtli St.) is far more beautiful architecturally. 
Up to 90th St., where the Andrew Carnegie mansion stands, the 
finest houses of the new New York have been placed. Ex- 
tremely notable among them are the homes of John Jacob 
Astor and Mrs. William Astor at 65th St., Elbridge T. Gerry 
at 6ist St., Senator William A. Clark at 77th St., William C. 
Whitney at 68th St.; George J. Gould, northeast corner of 67th 
St. Others going up in this section are (each to cost a million 
or more) residences for Perry Belmont (94th St.), James B. 
Haggin (63d St.), Payne Whitney (between 78th and 79th), 
Howard Gould (73d), Henry Phipps (87th). 

J. Pierpont Morgan, many will be interested in knowing, 
resides at 219 Madison Ave., on the northwest corner of 36th St., 
and John D. Rockefeller at 4 W. 54th St. 

As Fifth Ave., save in its upper portion, is not a street for 
fashionable people to live on, neither is it a "swell" promenade. 
Just after the churches are out is the best hour to see Society, 
and even then Society very quietly scurries down side streets. 
On Madison Ave. really more of the "fashionables" are to be 
met with. On Fifth Ave. it is generally visitors and people 
from other sections of the town that strangers mistake for the 
famous people they have read about. If one would really see 
these people he can find them best in the fashionable restaurants 
named above, or in the Madison Square Garden (Madison Ave. 
and 27th St.) during Horse Show week. 

Nevertheless, Fifth Ave. always displays elegance and luxury. 
Its afternoon pageant, its evening dash and the pictures to be 
seen in the great restaurants are worth the while. During the 
season the Metropolitan Opera House presents a splendid pic- 
ture of these people nightly, apart from its musical interest. 
Also the east drive of Central Park — not the west — will show 
every pleasant afternoon a scene of great fashionable moment. 

The "elect" of New York spend little time, however, in their 
city homes. These great mansions are not occupied for over 
two months a year at the most. The owners have country 
places along the east bank of the Hudson above Tarrytown, 
Dn the north and south shores and in the centre of Long Island, 
at Newport, in the Berkshires, in North Carolina. The Meadow- 
brook Hunt, near Hempstead, L. I., the Westchester County 
Club near Throg's Neck in Bronx Borough are two of their 
great institutions. They stay out of town until late in the fall, 



26 Handbook of New York. 

spend Christmas out of town, go south in February. A New 
York society season means from December ist to the 20th, from 
January 5th to but early in February. The city house is little 
more than a casual show place. 

Contem])oraneous with the building up of Lower Fifth Ave. 
as a region of fashion, half a century ago, was the establishment 
of Brooklyn Heights on the cliff overlooking East River, Man- 
hattan Island and Bay, and ten years or so later the Hill of 
Washington and Clinton Aves. arose. Though Lower Fifth 
Ave., Manhattan, has been largely left behind by Society, Brook- 
lyn Heights and Brooklyn Hill remain as they were, representa- 
tive sections. To them has been added the now settled region 
immediately west of Prospect Park, the "Park Slope." 

Yet a further change is coming over the " avenue's " face. At 
SSth St. and the University Club, two towering apartment hotels, 
each to cost $3,000,000, one the much talked of St. Regis of 
the Astors, are rising. Further down, on the old Brunswick 
Hotel site (26th St.), there is to be another great apartment 
hotel. 

Fifth Ave. and S2d St. has been figured out as the geo- 
graphical social center of New York. 



NEW YORK OF THE SHOPS 

For even the veriest stranger the shopping district of New 
York is easy of access and can almost be found blindfolded. 
Its extreme downtown point is John Wanamaker's, Broadway 
and loth St. (take Broadway or Madison Avenue car), its up- 
town end Herald Square (where Broadway, Sixth Ave. and 34th 
St. meet and where the big new stores of R. H. Macy & Co. 
and Saks & Co. are located). Between these two points are, 
among others, these great establishments, to be reached by Broad- 
way and Sixth Ave. cars (Eighth and Madison Ave. cars trans- 
fer to 23d St. line) : 

Department Stores — Arnold, Constable & Co., Broadway and 
19th; Lord & Taylor, Broadway and 20th; Daniell's, Broadway 
and 9th; Stern's, 23d St., between Fifth and Sixth Aves.; Le 
Boutillier's, same block; McCreery's, same block; B. Altman & 
Co., Sixth Ave. and 19th; Siegel-Cooper Co., Sixth Ave. and 
i8th; O'Neil's, Sixth Ave. and 20th; Ehrich Bros, Sixth Ave. 
and 23d; Simpson Crawford Co., Sixth Ave., 19th and 20th; 



New York of the Shops. 



27 



Adams & Co. Sixth Ave. and 2Tst; James A. Hearn & Co., 14th 
St., between Fifth and Sixth Aves. ; Rothenberg & Co., same 
block. Another great store of this order is Bloomingdale Bros., 
Third Ave. and 59th St. (transfer to 59th St. cars). 

Brooklyn has Department Stores no less imposing and com- 
plete: Abraham &: Straus; Frederick Loeser & Co.; A. D. 
Matthews' Sons: Chapman & Co.; all on Fulton St. Journeay 
& Burnham, Flatbush Ave. (take Fulton, Gates, Putnam, Flat- 
bush, Third, DeKalb Ave. trolley cars from the New York end 
of the Brooklyn Bridge), and Batterman's, Broadway, Brooklyn 
(take ferry from foot of East 23d or 42d St. and then Broad- 
way (Brooklyn) car). 

Book Shops — Button's, 23d St., between Fifth and Sixth 
Aves.; G. P. Putnam's Sons, same block; Brentano's, Union 
Square (Broadway, 14th to 17th Sts.) ; Charles Scribner's Sons, 
Fifth Ave., near 22d St.; Dodd, Mead & Co., Fifth Ave. and 
35th St. 

A. A. Vantine's (Oriental goods), Broadway and i8th St.; 
Huyler's (confectionery), Broadway near 17th St., Fifth Ave. 
near 43d St.; W. & J. Sloane (furnishings), Broadway and 
igth St.; Tiffany & Co., Union Square, and Theodore B. Starr, 
206 Fifth Ave., jewels and bric-a-brac. 

Along Fifth Ave. the finest novelties in furniture, bric-a-brac 
and millinery are to be bought. The show windows are par- 




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28 Handbook of New York. 

ticularly notable. Fourth Ave. between 23d and 34th Sts. is the 
centre for antiques and costly old furniture. In general the 
cheaper priced stores are to be found on 14th St. and the 
lower end of Sixth Ave. The larger stores, however, carry 
all grades and cater to all purses. 

Of Fifth Ave. of the Shops, John Corbin has to say in a 
recent number of Scribtier's Magazine: "On either side of the 
street at brief intervals are shops — -old mansions made over 
into show rooms — in which the modern goddesses of liberty 
find raiment to make their natural loveliness adorable. * * • 
Quite as important as the something to wear is the some place 
to live in. The show windows of others of these converted 
mansions are splendid with all that goes to make a house beau- 
tiful to the eye. There are great oaken chests with mediaeval 
Gothic carvings, and stately chairs and sideboards covered with 
florid Flemish or Italian designs; fragile Chippendales and 
Sheraton, so unlike the ungainly furniture of modern England; 
elegant and superelegant drawing-room sets of the later Louis 
and the Empire — in short the most beautiful examples of the 
most beautiful styles of all ages are grouped here to attract 
the eye of the new millionaire who is bent on gaining a foot- 
hold in this wonderful world of the metropolis. Here a pair of 
sculptured lions guard the shop entrance. There the capital of 
an antique column, hollowed out to make room for plants or 
flowers, stands before a shop window. Both are real art treas- 
ures caught up from the ruins of the Old to lend a touch of 
stately beauty to some newly fashioned garden in the New. 
There are wall papers of the newest and most beautiful pat- 
terns, embroideries and tapestries of all countries and all ages. 
Here a white Romish chasuble and stole richly embroidered 
with blue and crimson and gold, which has been worn through 
who knows how many solemn and magnificent masses, are dis- 
played for sale against a curtain of dull red ancient velvet 
brought from a ruinous castle in Spain." * • * 

On Fourth Ave., below 23d St., are many old book shops. 
Bargains in books, curios and all that is old are elusive, how- 
ever, nnd the side streets over the city should be explored by 
the collector. Once it was possible to buy cheaply excellent 
examples of Russian brass in dingy shops in Tewrv on the East 
Side. Now the genuine can only be had at a high figure. 



NEW YORK BY NIGHT 

To tour New York effectively by night several evenings should 
be taken. One should be spent up and down Broadway, from 
23d St. to Long Acre Square (47th St.), viewing the theatres 
and the "Tenderloin." A second night should be given to the 
"Broadway" of the lower class — Eighth Ave., from i8th St. to 
59th. This should prove an interesting tour. The Bowery is 
very commonplace and has little interest now, but it can be 
taken in on a journey through the lower sections of the 
"Ghetto," the Mulberry Bend Italian quarter and Chinatown. 



New York Clubdom. 29 

(For the start and the ways of reaching these localities see 
chapter, "New York's Foreign Quarters.") 

The upper part of the "Ghetto," and "Little Hungary" and 
'"Klein Deutschland" to the north of it, are worth an additional 
night. (Refer as noted above.) 



NEW YORK CLUBDOM 

In the chapter, "Fashionable New York," the famous clubs 
on Fifth Ave. were named and located, the Union, the Univer- 
sity, the Union League, the Calumet, the Knickerbocker, the New 
York, the Metropolitan. But these, though perhaps the most re- 
nowned, are only a tithe of the clubs of Manhattan and 
Brobklyn. 

Club life in New York is not generally understood outside of 
it. A New York club of the first rank is the New Yorker's 
second home. Some unmarried men live at their clubs, nearly 
every clubhouse having a few sleeping rooms or suites to rent. 
Here a man goes for rest, for reading, to dine, breakfast or 
lunch, smoke or drink, to entertain. In the clubs at night there 
is probably more important business done than down town 
during the day. "Deals" are talked over at leisure, projects 
planned, men busy by daylight have a chance to "get together." 

Many New Yorkers belong to many clubs, but as a rule each 
man has his favorite club, and does not often get to any other. 
The Union is the club of the older men of Society, the Calumet 
and Knickerbocker of the younger men. The Century and 
Lotus and the Players have largely professional men in their 
membership, those allied with or interested in Arts and Letters. 
The Lambs is a club of actors. The Union League, though 
social in its aims, admits only Republicans, the Democratic and 
Manhattan only Democrats. The University admits only college 
men. The graduates of Yale, Harvard and Princeton have each 
their own club. The Progress is a Jewish organization. 

The majority of the clubs are. very elegantly fitted up, notable 
among them being the University, the Metropolitan, the Union 
League, the Union in its new club house. A club in New York 
is to all intents a private house, and can only be entered upon 
the invitation of a member. But the exteriors of all the clubs 
mentioned above are worth seeing. 

Special note should be made of the lunching clubs of New 
York in the down town districts, handsome suites of rooms in 
tall office buildings crowded each noon time, kept open also 
until 8 or 9 o'clock for the dining of belated business men. 
Some of these are the Down Town in Pine St., between William 
and Pearl (which, however, has a building of its own) ; the 
Lawyers' in the Equitable Building, Broadway and Cedar St.; 
the Hardware in the Postal Telegraph Building, Broadway and 
Murray St.; the Arkwright in the Central National Bank Build 
ing, Broadway and Worth St. ; the Merchant's in the New York 
Life Building, Broadway and Leonard St. 

Following is a directory of some of the leading clubs of the 
city not hitherto located: Century, 43d St. west of Fifth Ave.; 
New York Athletic, 59th St., corner of Sixth Ave.; Republican, 



30 Handbook of New York. 

Fifth Ave., near 40th, about to move to its new club house on 
40th St. facing Bryant Park; Lotus, 556 Sixth Ave.; Manhattan, 
26th St. and Madison Ave.; Hamilton, Clinton and Remsen Sts., 
Brooklyn; Brooklyn, Clinton and Pierrepont Sts.; Catholic, 
59th St. near Fifth Ave.; Colonial, Broadway and 7 2d; Army and 
Navy, 16 West 31st St.; Yale, 30 West 44th St.; Harvard, 27 
West 44th St.; Engineers', 374 Fifth Ave.; National Arts (both 
men and women in membership), ^4th St., west of Fifth Ave.; 
Harmonie, 42d St. west of Fifth Ave.; Arion, Park Ave. and 
59th; Lambs, 70 West 36th; Hanover, Bedford Ave. and Rodney 
St., Brooklyn; Montauk. Eighth Ave. and Lincoln PI., Brooklyn; 
Union League of Brooklyn, Bedford Ave. and Dean St.; Prince- 
ton, 72 East 34th; Players, 16 Gramercy Park; Democratic, 617 
Fifth Ave.}. Crescent, Clinton St. near Pierrepont, Brooklyn; 
country house. Bay Ridge, Brooklyn; Marine and Field, Bath 
Beach, Brooklyn (a country club) ; Westchester Country Club, 
Schuylerville, Bronx Borough; Oxford, Lafaj^ette Ave. and South 
Oxford St., Brooklyn; Lincoln, 65 Putnam Ave. Brooklyn; 
Germania, Schermerhorn St., near Smith, Brooklyn. 



RELIGIOUS NEW YORK 

Manhattan Borough and Brooklyn Borough together have a 
wealth of churches, a wealth in churches, a splendor of church 
architecture and a value of church property that would scarcely 
be credited. With few exceptions New York manages to secure 
at some time or other the most of the great preachers of each 
decade. 

Of special importance in her ministry now are the Rt. Rev. 
Henry C. Potter, Bishop of New York (Episcopal), Dr. Charles 
H. Parkhurst of the Madison Square Presbyterian, the Rev. Dr. 
Newell Dwight Hillis of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn (successor 
of Henry Ward Beecher and Dr. Lyman Abbott), Dr. W. S. 
Rainsford of St. George's, the Rev. Robert S. MacArthur of 
Calvary Baptist, the Rev. S. D. McConnell of All Souls' (which 
see), the Rev. Morgan Dix. 

While half a hundred New York and Brooklyn churches 
might well be visited the following are the most interesting 
from one point of view or another. The Catholic and Episcopal 
churches are open to visitors nearly all the time. There may be 
difficulty in getting into the others on week days: 

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine (Episcopal) — Now 
building on Morningside Heights (Amsterdam Ave. and 112th 
St.). It has been estimated this will take 100 years to complete 
and will cost sixteen millions of dollars. There is little con- 
ception of the immensity of this structure as planned. The 



Religious Nezv York. 31 

huge stone arch under way that now seems to dominate upper 
New York is but a minor fragment, merely one of the four 
arches that will carry the pinnacle. A chapel in the crypt is 
now complete and services are held in it. There is a very fine 
jeweled altar there. (Take Amsterdam Ave. cars from Sixth 
Ave.). 

St. Patrick's Cathedral (Catholic)^ — Fifth Ave. and 50th St., 
13th century Gothic and of white marble, a huge basilica, with 
twin steeples, 328 feet high. Projected in 1850, and not yet com- 
plete. It has a fine marble altar and splendid bells. Within 
this cathedral is very imposing. Outwardly it dominates Fifth 
Ave., and. is, perhaps^ the chief point of religious interest in 
New York. A Lady Chapel is now building on the Madison 
Avenue front. 

The Churcji of the Paulist Fathers (Catholic) — Columbus 
Ave. and 60th St. Imposing interior, baldachino altar, and 
finely decorated chapels. 

Trinity (Episcopal) — Broadway facing Wall St. (Take Sixth 
Ave. Elevated to Rector St. station, or Broadway car). Trinity 
Parish (founded in 1696) possesses real estate valued at over 
$10,000,000. Its property holdings are some of the richest in 
New York, and were bestowed upon the parish by Queen Anne. 
This property, known as the "Queen's Farm," has been fought 
for unsuccessfully by the heirs of Anneke Jans. Several of 
the leading churches in the city, among them St. Paul's, St. 
John's (Varick St., very reminiscent of old New York), and St. 
Agnes (92d St. near Columbus Ave.) are but chapels of Trinity 
officially. The parish contains nine churches. 

The first Trinity was built 1696, the second 1788, the present 
church 1839, and consecrated 1846. Dr. Morgan Dix is the pres- 
ent rector. Trinity is rich Gothic in design and one of the 
most churchly edifices in the country. Its special interior 
feature is the wonderful carved altar in memory of the late 
William B. Astor. Of recent years superb doors have been 
placed at the main entrance. The churchyard is very ancient 
(see chapter, "The New York of History and Landmarks"). 

All Souls' — Madison Ave. and 66th St. Dr. Heber Newton's 
old church. The Rev. S. D. McConnell present rector. 

All Souls' (Unitarian) — 20th St. and Fourth Ave. Dr. Bel- 
lows' old church. Architecture Byzantine. 

All Souls' (Universalist) — Brooklyn, South 9th St., near 
Bedford Ave. CTake Nostrand or Franklin Ave. cars from 
Brooklyn side 23d St. ferry.) 



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OLD ST. PAUL S. 



Beth-El — Jewish synagogue 76th St. and Fifth Ave. A gor- 
geous gilt dome. Noted "Reform" Temple. 

Brick Presbyterian — 37th St. and Fifth Ave. Congregation 
dates back of 1767. Dr. Henry Van Dyke's old church. 

Calvary (Baptist) — 57lh St. between Sixth and Seventh Aves. 
Rev. Robert S. MacArthur, pastor. Famous church. 

Christ — Brooklyn, Clinton and Harrison Sts. (Court St. car 
to Harrison St.) Episcopal. 

Christ — Brooklyn, Eastern District, Bedford Ave., near Di- 
vision. (Take Nostrand or Franklin Ave. car from 23d St. 
ferry.) Episcopal. 

Church of the Ascension (Episcopal) — Fifth Ave. and loth 
St. Great mural altar piece and extraordinary stained glass. 

Church of the Heavenly Rest (Episcopal)— Fifth Ave. 
above 45th St. Handsome interior. 

Church of the Messiah (Unitarian) — 34th St. and Park 
Ave. Rev. Robert Collyer's church (and Rev. Minot J. Savage). 

Church of the Messiah (Episcopal)— Greene and Clermont 
Aves., Brooklyn. (Greene Ave. car from Bridge.) 

Church of the Pilgrims (Congregational) — Henry and Rem- 
sen Sts., Brooklyn. Take car to Borough Hall, Brooklyn. Dr. 
Richard Salter Storrs's old church. 

Collegiate Church (Dutch Reformed) — The "Marble Dutch," 



Religious New York. 33 

Fifth Ave. and West 29th St. Oldest congregation in New 
York, dating back to the old church in the "Fort," 1626. 

Divine Paternity (Universalist) — 76th St. and Central Park 
West. Fine music. 

Emanu-El — Jewish synagogue, 43d St. at Fifth Ave. Oriental 
exterior and interior. The late Dr. Gustav Gottheil, former 
rabbi. 

Fifteenth St. Hicksite Meeting House (Friends) — isth St. 
and Rutherford Place, facing Stuyvesant Square (on block ad- 
joining St. George's). 

First Presbyterian — Fifth Ave. and nth St. Congregation 
dates back to 17 19. 

First Reformed — Seventh Ave. and Carroll St., Brooklyn. 
(Seventh Ave. car from Bridge..) 

Grace (Episcopal) — Broadway and Eleventh St. Very fashion- 
able. Rich interior. Dr. W. R. Huntington, rector. 

Grace — Hicks St. and Grace Court, Brooklyn. (Car from 
Brooklyn Bridge to Remsen St.) A fashionable Heights church. 

Holy Trinity — Montague and Clinton Sts., Brooklyn. An 
imposing structure of brownstone (Episcopal), with rich chan- 
cel. Visited by many sightseers. The church of the late Charles 
H. Hall and of S. D. McConnell. Take car across Brooklyn 
Bridge to Montague and Fulton Sts. (Borough Hall), and walk 
one block east. 

John Street Methodist Church — See chapter, "The New 
York of History and Landmarks." The oldest church edifice in 
New York. 

Madison Avenue Presbyterian — Madison Square at 24th 
St. and Madison Ave. Dr. Charles H. Parkhurst. 

Marcy Ave. Baptist — Brooklyn, Putnam and Marcy Aves. 
(Putnam Ave. car from Bridge.) 

Plymouth Church — Orange St., Brooklyn. Fulton St. car 
from the New York end of the Bridge. Get off at Orange St. 
Always celebrated for its preaching. See page 30. The church of 
Beecher. 

Russian Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas — 97th St., near 
Fifth Ave. Interesting ceremonial. (Madison Ave. cars to 
97th St.) 

St. Anthony of Padua (Catholic) — A famous Franciscan 
church at 149 Sullivan St. (Take Sixth Ave. car south to 
Grand St., walk west to Sullivan St.) 

St. Augustine (Catholic) — Sixth Ave. and Sterling Place, 
Brooklyn. Fifth or Seventh Ave. cars across the Bridge. An 
altar with its jeweled tabernacle guarded by an electric bur^ 
glar alarm. 



34 Handbook of Nciv York. 

St. Bartholomew's — 44th St. and Madison Ave. Exceed- 
ingly fashionable and wealthy congregation and of beautiful in- 
terior. Dr. David H. Greer, rector. 

St. Francis Xavier (Catholic) — i6th St. near Sixth Ave. 
Very beautiful interior after the French style. 

St. George's (Episcopal) — Dr. W. S. Rainsford. Take Third, 
Second, or Fourth Ave. car to i6th St. Located on Stuyvesant 
Square, at i6th St. Highly developed parish work, including 
trade classes, all open to inspection. This has been spoken of as 
the greatest of the "Institutional" churches of America. It 
should emphatically be visited. 

St. Ignatius (Episcopal) — ^lost advanced of the ritualistic 
churches. 87th St. and West End Ave. 

St. Ignatius Loyola (Catholic) — Park Ave. and 84th St. 
New church of distinguished altar and decorations. 

St. James' Pro-Cathedral — Brooklyn, Jay and Chai)el Sts. 
Founded 1822. (Smith St. cars across Bridge pass the door.) 

St. Luke's — Clinton Ave., near Fulton St., Brooklyn. (Fulton 
St. or Putnam Ave. cars from Brooklyn Bridge.) 

St. Mark's — Second Ave. See chapter "History," etc. 

St. Mary the Virgin (Episcopal-ritualistic) — 46th St., be- 
tween Sixth and Seventh Aves. 

St. Paul's — Broadwaj^ and Fulton St. See chapter "History,"' 
etc. A isit churchyard. 

St. Thomas — 53d St. and Fifth Ave. See chapter, "Fashion- 
able New York." 

Shearith Israel — Splendid temple of the Portuguese Jews at 
Central Park West and 70th St. Service in Hebrew. Com- 
pletely orthodox. 

Tompkins Ave. Congregational — Tompkins Ave. and Mc- 
Donough St., Brookl3n. (Fulton St. or Putnam Ave. cars from 
Brooklyn Bridge.) 

Transfiguration (Episcopal) — 29th St., between Fifth and 
Madison Aves. Extremely picturesque exterior. Called the 
"Little Church Around the Corner." 

A complete directory of all churches and their pastors is 
contained in the Eagle Almanac. 

The .Denominational Headquarters follow: 

Catholic— The Most Rev. J. M. Farley, Archbishop, 452 
Madison Ave., corner of 50th St., on same block as St. Patrick's 
Cathedral, Manhattan. The Very Rev. C. E. McDonnell, Bishop, 
Greene and Vanderbilt Aves., Brooklyn. 

Presbyterian — Presbyterian Building, 156 Fifth Ave. 

Methodist Iumscopal — Methodist Building, 150 l^'ifth Ave. 

Protestant Episcopal — Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter, Bishop; 



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35 



Diocesan • House, 29 Lafayette Place. Manhattan. Rt. Rev. 
Frederick Burgess, Bishop of Long Island, Remsen St., near 
Court, Brooklyn. 

Reformed Church in America — Reformed Church Building, 
25 East 22d St. 

Though geographically it stands several miles east of the 
furthest botmds of New York City, out on the Long Island 
plain close to Hempstead, the Cathedral at Garden City, a 
superb structure in a park-like region, should none the less be 
visited. This Episcopal cathedral was founded and endowed 
by Mr^. A. T. Steivart. Take railroad from Long Island City 
(Queens Borough), ferry fool of East 34th St., or from Flatbush 
Ave. Depot, Brooklyn. 

In New York the Young Men's Christian Association is at 
its strongest and has many branches. Its executive headquar- 




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36 Handbook of New York. 

ters are at 156 Fifth Ave. (the Presbyterian Building). Casual 
visitors and applicants for membership should go, however, pend- 
ing completion of the new 23d St. branch (215 W. 23d St.), 
to the temporary quarters at 208 VV. 23d St. The familiar old 
structure, 4th Ave. and 23d St., is being torn down. Or go to 
the West 57th St. building (south side of the street, just west 
of Eighth Ave.) 

The Brooklyn headquarters are at Fulton and Bond Sts., nearly 
opposite DeKalb Ave. (Take Gates Ave., Fulton St., DeKalb 
Ave., Flatbush Ave., Putnam Ave. or Third Ave. cars across the 
Bridge.) 

Membership in the Young Men's Christian Association of 
New York can be had on different scales and according to the 
special branch joined— from $2 a year up. The West 57th St. 
house is the handsomest yet put up. The new 23d St. building 
mentioned above, to be finished September, 1903, will be very 
fine and complete. Other notable branches are at Madison Ave. 
and 45th St. (Railroad Branch), 5 West 125th St. and 158 East 
87th St. 

The Young Women's Christian Association is at 7 East isth 
St., Manhattan, and Flatbush Ave. and Schermerhorn St., 
Brooklyn. (Flatbush Ave. car from Bridge.) 

Christian Science flourishes in New York. It has five "tem- 
ples," including a very handsome church at Central Park West 
and 68th St. 



THE NEW YORK OF HISTORY AND LAND- 
MARKS 

Perhaps, to-day, New York's most impressive landmarks are 
Fraunces' Tavern at the N.E. corner of Broad St. and Pearl, 
St. Paul's Chapel at the corner of Fulton St. and Broadway, 
and the old John Street Methodist Church on John St.'s down 
town side, a block and a half east of Broadway. For these are 
real places, in which history was really made. In St. Paul's 
Chapel (built 1764) Washington actually sat — his pew is shown 
to visitors. In the "Long Room" in Fraunces' Tavern he bade 
good bye to his officers at the Revolution's close. In the John 
Street Church, the "Cradle of Methodism in America," White- 
field "used to preach like a lion." 

Nearly all else of New York historically are merely sites, 
marked by tablets. It is true the Jumel Mansion of famous 
old Madam Jumel who finallv married Aaron Burr yet stands 
(i6oth St. near Amsterdam Ave., take Amsterdam Ave. car up 
Sixth Ave.) and the 13 trees of Alexander Hamilton (144th St. 
near Amsterdam Ave.) But these latter are but mournful sur- 
vivals. There remain old St. Mark's Church on Second Ave., 
103 years old, and the City Hall in City Hall Park, now nearing 
the end of its first century. These practically complete the list 
of genuinely old New York yet existent. The Debtors' Prison, 
latterly the Hall of Records, by the City Hall's side, has just 
been torn down. . . 

However, visitor and New Yorker can find much to stir their 
memories and arouse their interest about the crooked streets 
below the City Hall. Where the new Custom House is now 



The New York of History and Landmarks. 37 

being built, facing Bowling Green at the foot of Broadway, is 
the site of the Government House of a hundred years ago, and 
before that Fort Amsterdam stood here. This was the fort 
Peter Stuyvesant surrendered, that Dutch Governor whose bones 
rest under St. Mark's Church. 

Bowling Green was once the Dutch market place, T'Marck- 
velt. The Washington Building at i Broadway marks the place 
of the Kennedy Mansion, later Washington Hall, famous in 
Revolutionary times. At 41 Broadway (Aldrich Court) is the 
site of the first habitation of white men on Manhattan Island 
(built 161 3, four huts). The first Trinity Church was built on 
the site of the present edifice (the third), in 1697. There is a 
tombstone of a Holland maid here, dating back to 1633. 

115 Broadway (just above Trinity) marks the location of the 
King's Arms Tavern and later the City Hotel, famous society 
resorts of the i8tli and early 19th centuries. 

Other sites to be pilgrimaged to, all lying closely together, 
in the coiirse of a morning or afternoon are: 

Wall Street — U. S. Sub-Treasury, corner of Nassau St. 
(New York's second City Hall, later Federal Hall, was here for 
a century. Washington was inaugurated in front of it.) No. 56 
(site of Captain Kidd's residence). Present Custom House 
(originally Merchant's Exchange). Bank of New York, N.E. 
corner of William St. (moved to this site 1800, the first bank 
New York had). No. 60, the Central Trust Company Building 
(under a tree here the New York Stock Exchange was founded in 
1792). Corner of Water St. (up to this point in 1790 the river 




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38 Handbook of New York. 

came and on the slip were the famous Tontine Coffee House 
and Merchant's Coffee House). 

Hanover St. — Twenty-tive teet away from here the great fire 
of 1835 started. 

Hanover Square — The Cotton Exchange (where the first news- 
paper of New York was printed). 

Pearl St.^ — l-'irst residence street of New York. Opposite 
Coenties Slip, corner Coenties Alley, one block trom Broad St., 
site of Stadt Huys of New Amsterdam. 

John Street — No. 17 (site ot famous John Street Theatre). 
Corner of William St. (where the first blood of the Revolution 
was shed, the Battle of Golden Hill). 

Trinity churchyard well repays a stroll among its tomb- 
stones. The memorials include monumental blocks to Alexan- 
der Hamilton and Captain James Lawrence of " Don't give up 
the Ship" fame. 

It is in St. Mark's churchyard that the great Peter Stuyve- 
sant is buried (search out his tombstone, a block against the 
east wall of the church towards the front), and here was also 
entombed the merchant, A. T. Stewart. From this churchyard 
his body was said to have been stolen. 

Barnum's Museum of thirty years ago was where the tower- 
ing St. Paul'.s Building now stands, on Broadway, opposite St. 
Patil's Chapel. 

Tammany Hall was organized in a tavern on the present 
Tribune Building's site. 

The Anneke Jans Farm, the " Queen's Farm," referred to in 
" Religious New York," covered the territory now bounded by 
Warren St., Broadway. Watts, Canal and (jreenwich Sts. (62 
acres). 

In Battle I'ass, Prospect Park, Brooklyn, the hardest fighting 
of the Revolutionary Battle of Long Island was done. The 
American line of fortifications swept around from almost the 
present southwest corner of the Navy Yard to South Brooklyn, 
one end of it resting on the hill and park now named Fort 
Greene. Here a monument is to be erected to the memory of 
the martyrs who died in the prison ships of the Wallabout (the 
bay just to the north of the Navy Yard). A fine shaft stands 
in Battle Pnss (enter Prospect Park from Plaza, Flatbush Ave. 
car from Bridge). To Fort Greene, take Myrtle Ave. car across 
Bridge. There is an interesting Revolutionary tablet on a com- 
mercial building at the southwest corner of Fulton St. and 
Flatbush Ave. 

It must be noted that these are but a few of New York's 
Historic Sites, the most important and significant merely. They 
are all. nevertheless, the average New Yorker and casual vis- 
itor will be interested in, and space forbids a detailed list. 
Such a list_ conveniently arranged for reference, is in existence, 
howeve", compiled by the present writer, in the 1903 Eagle Al- 
manac (price 50 cents, pnt^c -ioj). 



Galleries, Museums, Theatres and Music. 39 

GALLERIES, MUSEUMS, THEATRES AND 

MUSIC 

The theatres that are to be visited, the collections that are to 
be seen, the music that is to be heard and the paintings that 
await many inspections in New York are so numerous that even 
an incomplete description of them would fill more than this 
book. All that can be done here is to start the sightseer off 
properly with a full appreciation of the treasures before him, 
making sure that he does not miss the best. 

THEATRES. 

But a few years ago the theatres of New York centered about 
23d St. always along the line of Broadway. Now there are 
few below 34th St. Long Acre Square (42d to 47th St. and 
Broadway) is no longer the vanguard for New York's drama, 
with its blazes of electric bulbs each night it is in the thick 
and the centre. 47th St. down to 24th marks the extreme 
limit. Practically the theatres are all well above 34th St. 

The Lyceum on Fourth Ave. has recently been torn down. 
The Star (Broadway and 13th St.) has been replaced by a busi- 
ness building. Alone among the playhouses of the past stands 
the Academy of Music (14th St. and Irving Place), one block 
east of Union Square, formerly the home of Italian opera, 
now devoted to colossal scenic productions. A block above on 
Irving Place is the celebrated German theatre of New York, 
the Irving Place, Conried's. Conried is the new manager of the 
Metropolitan Opera House. 

On the Bowery in the Yiddish and Italian theatres (three of 
the former, one of the latter) frequently brilliant dramatic per- 
formances are given, imheeded by the most of New Yorkers. To 
this array of foreign playhouses a genuinely handsome theatre 
has been added, especially built for the Yiddish drama, on Grand 
St., on the site of the Lord & Taylor old store, one block east 
of the Bowery. 

Grouped according to their location, the most famous New York 
theatres are: 

Belasco Theatre (David Belasco's, new), 42d St., west of 
Broadway. Victoria, 42d St. and Seventh Ave. New York, 
Broadway and 44th (formerly Hammerstein's), facing Long Acre 
Square. Criterion, Broadway and 44th. Broadway, on 
Broadway at 41st. Empire, Broadway at 40th. Casino (light 
opera), at 39th. Knickerbocker at 38th. Herald Square at 
35th. Garrick, 35th St. east of Sixth Ave. New Savoy, 34th 
St.. west of Broadway and Sixth Ave. 



40 Handbook of New York. 

Manhattan, Broadway, Sixth Ave. and 33d. Daly's (noted 
house now managed by Daniel Frohman) at 30th, Wallack's 
(old house, famous for memories) at 30th, Weber & Fields 
(music hall, burlesques), 30th St. Princess, at 29th St. Gar- 
den, Madison Ave. and 27th, in Madison Square Garden. Mad- 
ison Square, 24th St., west of Broadway. Bijou, at 30th St. 
Fifth Ave., at 28th. 

Fourteenth Street, 14th St. west of Sixth Ave. Pastor's, 
14th St. east of Third Ave., adjoining Tammany Hall, vaudeville. 
Keith's, Union Square. 

Majestic — 59th St., at Eighth Ave. 

Of these, the New York Theatre holds 3,200 and the old 
Academy of Music 2,800. The price of the best seats at metro- 
politan theatres is now $2, and evening performances generally 
begin at 8:15. In the New York theatres, contrary to the order 
of things in London, men seldom wear evening dress, unless 
they are members of a theatre party. Women should arrange 
their hair so as to take off their hats during the performances. 

The Brooklyn theatres number: Montauk (Fulton St.); Acad- 
emy OF Music (Montague St.); Columbia (Washington St.); 
Grand Opera House (Elm Place); Bijou (Smith St.); Orpheum 
(Fulton St.). music hall; Park (Fulton St.). Take Fulton St., 
Putnam, Gates, or Flatbush Ave. cars, Brooklyn Bridge. 

Amphion (Bedford Ave.) : Payton's ("Lee Ave.) and (Fulton 
St.); Folly (Broadway); Gayety (Broadway). Take car from 
foot of Broadway ferry. 

The Eden Musee, New York's permanent wax works exhi- 
bition, is on 23d St., east of Sixth Ave. 

MADISON SQUARE GARDEN— 

New York's greatest amusement structure. A building of 
the Spanish order of architecture, covering an entire city block 
— Madison Ave., 26th St., Fourth Ave., 27th St. Flere is a 
splendid amphitheatre and several large halls, besides the 
theatre mentioned above. In the amphitheatre are given many 
entertainments and "shows" that require great space and gather 
large audiences. The National Horse Show is always held here; 
the Dog Show, cycle and automobile exhibits, flower shows, the 
circus, races and bazaars on a great scale. The size and beauty 
of the interior are scarcely equaled, even abroad. Its greatest 
wcH-k in llie year is Horse Show Week, late in the fall. 

MUSIC 
Music's great New York temples are the Metropolitan Opera 
House, Broadway and 40th St. (grand opera), and the Carnegie 



Galleries, Museums, Theatres and Music. 41 

Building, Seventh Ave. and 57th (recitals and concerts). A 
Broadway car with the sign, "s8th Street," leads to both. 
Follow the daily papers carefully for events of the moment. 

Under Maurice Grau, the Grand Opera given at the Metro- 
politan Opera House the past few years has been, all considered, 
the finest in the world. ^ Under the new Director, Herr Conried, 
even more is expected, in casts and staging. 

On opera nights this auditorium presents the most brilliant 
social picture New York has to offer. Its audiences include all 
of representative New York society. The price of admission is 
from $1 to $5, but the best seats and boxes are always taken 
for the season. The galleries typify Cosmopolitan New York. 

The Carnegie Building has a large auditorium (seating 2,700) 
for orchestral concerts; Carnegie Music Hall, a theatre, Carnegie 
Lyceum, a hall for chamber music and a large number of music 
studios and assembly rooms. The Boston Symphony Orchestra 
gives its concerts in Carnegie Hall. 

Another very important concert place of New York is Men- 
delssohn Hall on 40th St., just east of Broadway. Here many 
of the leading soloists are heard. This hall has fine mural 
decorations- 
Musical societies of especial note are: The Philharmonic (An- 
drew Carnegie, president; Walter Damrosch, director) and the 
Oratorio Society (Andrew Carnegie, president; Walter Damrosch, 
conductor), both at Carnegie Musid Hall; the Musical Art So- 
ciety (Frank Damrosch, director); the Mendelssohn Glee Club, 
Mendelssohn Hall; the Arion (with a club house at Park Ave. 
and 5Qth St.); the Liederkranz (with a club house at in East 
58th St.), both German singing societies of the highest rank; 
and the People's Singing Classes (41 University Place). 

Brooklyn has, commonly, the best of her music given in the 
Academy of Music and the Art Association Rooms on Montague 
St., and in the auditorium of Association Hall, Bond and Fulton 
Sts., and Memorial Hall, Flatbush Ave._ and Schermerhorn St. 
This borough has scores of musical societies, among which are 
the Philharmonic Society (first firmly established by Theodore 
Thomas), the Apollo Club, the Amphion Musical Society, the 
Brooklyn Amateur Musical Club (women only), the Arion, the 
Brooklyn Saengerbund and the Williamsburgh Saengerbund. 

MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES 

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Central Park, Fifth Ave. and 
83d St. Free admission except Monday and Friday (25 cents). 
Open also Monday and Friday evenings, 8 to 10. Exceedingly 
complete collections in many galleries of paintings, sculpture, 
reliefs, pottery, antiques, glass and musical instruments. As 
a whole, these collections are unsurpassed in America. The pre- 
siding genius of the Museum was for many years Henry G. 
Marquand. (Fifth Ave. stages or Madison Ave. cars.) Sun- 
days open from 1.30 P. M. to half hour before sunset. Holi- 
days open all day. Director General, L. P. di Cesnola. 

In December, 1902, the new East Wing (facing on Fifth Ave.) 
was completed, and the collections are now rearranged and can 
be seen to greater advantage than ever before. There is much 



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new material. What the casual sightseer should view is here 
told briefly. Eventually this Museum will be six times its 
present size. 

Entering from Fifth Ave., the Hall of Sculpture is first met 
with, the heroic marble group, " Struggle of the Two Natures in 
Man," by the American, George Grey Barnard, arid the bronze 
figure, "Bacchante," of that other American, MacMonnies, be- 
ing the distinguishing examples. Another is the " Bear Tamer " 
of Paul Wayland Bartlett, This Hall is i66 feet long by 96 feet 
wide and has three domes, 76 feet above the floor. Opposite the 
entrance is the Grand Staircase. 

Ofi^ from this Hall, to the left, is the Wood Room (of carved 
chests, cabinets, etc., from many European countries, including 
a remarkable cabinet of bog yew presented by John D. Crimmins), 
the Coles Collection of tapestry, vases and malachite. To the 
right is the Huntington Collection of Washington, Franklin and 
Lafayette memorials, the Dickinson and Tweedle Collection of 
Peruvian pottery, and Mexican antiquities. 

Along the corridors at the side of the Grand Staircase there 
are, at the right, Egyptian antiquities; at the left, the stones and 
bronzes of the di Cesnola Collection, inscriptions, Phoenician, 
Cypriote and Greek, Babj'lonian and Assyrian clay tablets. At 
the end of these corridors tlie old building is reached. 

The old south wing has the immense di Cesnola Collection 
of stone sculptures and heads, pottery from Cyprus, Cypriote 
and Phoenician glass, and at the end near the South Entrance 
there is the Jarves Collection of glass. The North Wing contains 
casts, as does the old Main Hall. This latter has, however, by 
way of special features, big models of the Pantheon at Rome, 
ot the Parthenon at Athens, of the Hypostyle Hall at Karnac, 
of the Church of Notre Dame at Paris. High on the walls here, 
besides, are two enormous paintings — Hans Makart's '"Diana's 
Hunting Party" and Benjamin Constant's "Justinian." 




IHE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATUKAI. HlSTOkV. 



On the second floor, around the gallery over the Hall of 
Sculptures, there are cases of splendid lacquers, bronzes and 
I)orcehtins, the I'lutMiix lacquers, the William Osgood I-'iehl, 
Alfred Duane Pell and the Henry G. Marquand Collections of 
European porcelains, together with Mr. Field's Persian wares, 



Galleries, Museums, Theatres and Music. 43 

Mr. Marquand's Hispano Moresque objects and the Bishop Col- 
lection of bronzes, in the large room to the south of this gal 
lery is exhibited one of the greatest triumphs of the Metropolitan, 
the Pierpont Morgan Collection of Chinese porcelains (formerly 
the Garland Collection and now much added to). 

The A'orth Wing of the old building upstairs contains the 
rooms of the Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments of 
All Nations, by far the finest in the world, including" many fas- 
cinating spinets, harpsichords, horns, bagpipes and quaint and 
archaic string instruments, in all more than 3,000; a highly in- 
teresting lace collection; fans, embroideries, arms and armor, 
tapestries, Italian needlework and a room of metallic repro- 
ductions. 

In this wing on the second floor, close by the room of laces, 
is also the "Gold Room," not opened on Sundays or holidays, 
with its collection of engraved gem.s, and including the Avery 
Collection of silver spoons. 

The balance of the second floor is taken up with galleries of 
paintings, some loaned, others the Museum's property. Outside 
of the general galleries there are these special collections: The 
Marquand Gallery of Old Masters, the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe 
Collection (bequeathed with a fund of $200,000 for its care), 
.the William H. Vanderbilc Collection, the Room of the Dutch 
and Flemish Schools, the American Room. Pictures that must 
certainly be viewed in these galleries, if nothing else is, are: 

General Galleries — Rosa Bonheur's " The Horse Fair " (pre- 
sented by Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1887); William T. Dannat's " Un 
Ouatuor"; Edouard Manet's "Girl with a Parrot"; Meissonier's 
" Friedland, 1807 " (piesented by Henry Hilton); the L'Hermitte 
canvases; Henner's "Mary Magdalen"; Dupre's "The Bal- 
loon"; Innes's "Evening"; Bastian Le Page's "Joan of Arc"; 
Turner's "The Grand Canal, Venice"; Gabriel Max's "The 
Last Token." 

Wolfe Collection — Portrait of Miss Wolfe, painted by Cabanel. 

William H. Vanderbilt Collection — The examples of Alma 
Tadema, Daubig^ny, Rousseau, Diaz, Fromeniin, Turner and the 
great de Neufville painting. 

Marquand Galiery — Portrait of Mr. Marquand, painted by 
Sargent; the Portrait of a Man and the Portrait of a Woman 
by Velasquez; Franz Hals's Wife, by Franz Hals; the Leonardo 
da Vinci. 

MtrsEUM OF VHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ArTS AND SCIENCES 

Eastern Parkway and Washington Ave., Brooklyn (take Flatbush 
Ave. car from Brooklyn Bridge), is rapidly building up great 
collections. Three-sixteenths of the structure it will eventually 
have is now under way. (See Page 47.) 

Already substantial art and general collections have been 
acquired, and to-day the Museum is rapidly coming to the first 
rank. In February of this year the directors established a De- 
partment of Ethnology and secvired as its curator a noted Ameri- 
can savant, Stewart Culin, until then Curator of Archaeology 
and Paleontology at the Museum of the University of Pennsyl- 
vania. Under Mr. Culin expeditions are to be sent out over the 
country and great coUectioris of American ethnology are to be 
built up. 

Professor William H. Goodyear is the curator of the Museum's 
other departments. This Museum is. however, but one of the 



44 Handbook of New York. 

Brooklyn Institute's activities. See also chapter, " Brooklyn 
Institute." 

As yet but one-thirty-second of the building is completed for 
exhibition purposes. The present collections and their arrange- 
ment is, briefly, as follows: 

Basement — Geographical Collection. 

Along the staircase from the entrance to the third floor- — 
Goodyear Collection of Architectural Photographs of Interiors 
and Exteriors of Italian Churches. Of much artistic interest to 
the novice, but of especial scientific importance, since they have 
proved a new architectural principle, that of "leaning verticals," 
on which the museum is publishing the first of its series of 
Memoirs. 

First Floor — Casts, ancient glass, objects of art, including a 
collection of European porcelains from Alfred Duane Pell, and 
a unique relief in enameled, highly colored terra cotta work, a 
Lucca del Robbia. 

Second Floor — Natural History, including the Neumogen Col- 
lection of Butterflies and the William Wallace Tooker Collection 
of Long Island Indian Antiquities. 

Third Floor —VV^est Gallery. The Tis.sot Collection of Paint- 
ings and Drawings of the Life of Christ. Purchased by the 
subscriptions of Brooklyn citizens for $60,000 and presented to 
the Museum. There are nearly 500 pictures in all, all of small 
size and of wonderful power and drawing. In its special field 
this is one of the most remarkable collections of the world, and 
represents M. Tissot's life work. 

These Tissot pictures are shown in two rooms, the drawings 
in the little room off the West Gallery. In the West Gallery 
the paintings are matted and shown upon screens, subdividing 
the room into sections, against red and gold. Look at the pic- 
tures, upon entering from the corridor, from left to right. A 
descriptive catalogue can be had for 5 cents. 

In the East Gallery and in the Corridor is a pleasing collection 
of canvases. Visitors' attention is called to: 

The fine John Quidors in the Corridor. No other examples of 
this artist are on exhibition anywhere. (Quidor painted about 
1870, on subjects of Knickerbocker New York life, and died 
destitute and unrecognized.) 

The Fourteenth Century Panels (small) in the Corridor. In 
the East Gallery: 

The Decamps' "A School Scene"; the Etty's "Grief" and 
" The Morning Glory "; the early example of Turner; the three 
CourbetS "Marine," "The Storm," "Winter in Switzerland"; 
the three big canvases of Verestchagin; the three Van Goyens; 
the Gainsboroughs, "The Wanderer" and "View Near Bath"; 
Claude Lorrain's "The Red Mill"; the Daubigny; the three 
Salvator Rosas; the three Felix Ziems; "The Ferry" of Troyon; 
the Smybert portrait of Martha Dandridge; the "Moonlight" 
of George Michel; the two battle scenes of Cortese; the " Cow in 
the Pasture " and the " Fowl " of Anton Mauve. 

What is perhaps the Institute's most famous picture. Guy's 
" Brooklyn Snow Scene," one end of which was slightly dam- 
aged bv fire some years ago, is now stored, and consequently not 
on exhibition. 

American Museum of Naturat, History, 77th St. and Cen- 
tral Park West. (Columbus or Eighth Ave. cars.) Admission 
free except Monday and Tuesday (25 cents). Open Tuesday 



Galleries, Museums, Theatres and Music. 45 

and Saturday evenings (free). Splendid exhibits of animals of 
all climes, prehistoric beasts, costumes and utensils of far-away 
tribes, birds, woods, stones, etc. Hours open, 9 to 5, including 
holidays. Sundays, i to 5. 

This institution's rank — second, if not first, of any museum 
of its order in the country — is largely due to Morris K. jesup, 
its president. Frequent and costly expeditions are dispatched 
over all America for the acquiring of antiquities and the exhum- 
ing of fossil remains of pre-historic animal life. The collections 
are of a high class and the " restorations " of ancient animal 
life extraordinary. 

Attached to the staff are such eminent scientists as Henry 
Fairfield Osborn, F. W. Putnam, Frank M. Chapman, Franz 
Boaz and Marshall H. Saville. The Museum will later on 
cover the entire city square, at one end of which it is at present 
located. 

The floors of the Museum g:o by the names of Basement, Main, 
Gallery, Fourth and Fifth. Entering from up the steps, directly 
upon the Main Floor the visitor finds extensive groups and cases 
of mammals, large and sm.all; fine examples of the taxidermist's 
art, in many instances depicted in their natural haunts. Thus 
there is a splendid scene of moose in the woods, and another of 
American bison on the plain, the surroundings being carefully 
worked up as a setting for the seemingly living figures. 

A hall of birds is also on this floor. On the Gallery Floor 
there are monkeys and other mammals, additional birds, butter- 
flies (the great Hoffman Collection) and Peruvian pottery. The 
Fourth Floor has in its main hall and north wing exhibits of 
paleontology and geology, minerals and meteorites. In its west 
wing are the Due de Loubat Collection of ancient American 
sculptures, brought back in the Saville expeditions, and there is 
now going on an important work of restoration from the data 
and the antiquities discovered; and the Pierpont Morgan gift of 
gems, kept in a corner guarded b}' steel doors and two men on 
constant watch. Very wonderful is this gem collection, and very 
rare many of its specimens. 

In the east wing of the Fourth Floor there are the Museum's 
restorations of fossil vertebrates, with many exhibits of gigantic 
fossils, and Charles Knight's pictures in color of how these 
animals were and their surroundings, so far as science knows. 
In this hall there is, too, the great Cope Collection. 

The Fifth Floor contains shells. Another exhibit of the Main 
Floor is the Carl Lumholst Collection of Indian Basketry. On 
the Basement Floor is the Jesup Collection of Woods in the east 
hall; Indian collections in the north wing and Esquimaux col- 
lections in the west wing. 

Much of the interest of these latter exhibits lies in the fine 
groups Caspar Mayer, the sculptor, of the Museum's staff, has 
made, depicting scenes in the life of these tribes. Also there 
have been made exact models of their habitations. One of these 
groups shows an Indian man tanning, an Indian woman at basket 
making. Another group shows an Indian family of four at 
work. There is a vivid Esquimaux group, a scene in miniature 
of the sun dance of the Arapahoe Indians, an Escjuimaux winter 
house in miniature, and many more. The collections of objects, 
dresses and posed figures in these two halls are, besides, very 
large. 

New York Historical Society, Second Ave. and loth St. 



46 Handbook of New York. 

Collection of paintings, documents, manuscripts, pamphlets, re- 
lating to the City of New York. 

Admission only upon the card of a member. On the block 
between 76th and 77th Sts., fronting on Central Park West, the 
Society is shortly to commence the erection of a new building. 
In The present building the library is on the Second Floor. On 
the Third is the Abbott Collection of .Egyptian Antiquities and 
also a vaulted room for the keeping of manuscripts. The Gallery 
of Art (very valuable and rare in its objects) is on the Fourth 
Floor. 

American Geographical Societv, 8ist St., between Central 
Park West and Columbus Ave. A new home, well fitted up. 
Admission by card of members. Ten thousand maps and charts, 
25,000 geographical works. 

Long Island Historical Society, Pierrepont and Clinton Sts., 
Brooklyn. Its collections have been made with particular refer- 
ence to the history and the antiquities of Long Island, and its 
library of nearly 50,000 volumes, on its Second Floor, and its 
relics and curios, on its Third, may be consulted and viewed by 
non- members. 

The Fine Arts Federation has a building, with galleries, on 
S7th St., west of Seventh Ave., and frequent exhibitions are 
given there through the winter. 

Some of the art societies that have their exhibitions there 
are the National Academy of Design, the American Water Color 
Society, the Architectural League, the National Sculpture So- 
ciety. 

ADDITIONAL ART INTERESTS 

Artists by the hundred are scattered over New York, the 
country's great centre for painting and sculpture. The most 
noted studio buildings are the Bryant Park (40th St. and Sixth 
Ave.), the old West loth St. Studios (north side loth St., be- 
tween Fifth and Sixth Aves.), the Sherwood (57th St. and Sixth 
Ave.), the Holbein (over a row of stables, 55th St., south side, 
west of Sixth Ave.). 

In Brooklyn the centre of art interests is the Art Association 
Rooms on Montague St. 

The Academy of Design, having sold its building (the " Vene- 
tian Palace," Fourth Ave. and 23d St., now replaced by a " sky- 
scraper"), has now no galleries, merely schools, in a temporary 
building, Amsterdam Ave., between 109th and iioth Sts. The 
Academy is the most famous art institution in America. It was 
founded 1826. 

Many fine pictures and objects of great artistic interest may be 
seen by journeying from store to store, along Fifth Ave. and the 
side streets near by. New York's resources in this particular 



Brooklyn Institute, Libraries. 47 

are amazing. Some shops worth visiting are: Knoeuler & Co., 
355 Fifth Ave.; Cottier & Co., 3 East 34th St.; Avery's, 368 
Fifth Ave.; Schaus's, 204 Fifth Ave.; Boussod • Valadon & Co.'s, 
303 Fifth Ave.; William Macbeth, 237 Fifth Ave.; Sypher & 
Co.'s, Fifth Ave. and 28th St. 

Tliei-e are also interesting special art exhibitions constantly 
given in the galleries of the National Arts Club, 34th St., west 
of Fifth Ave. 



BROOKLYN INSTITUTE 

Outside of its Museum, the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 
Sciences (office, 502 Fulton St.) is a huge institution, like noth- 
ing else in the world, with a membership of several thousand 
and giving over 500 lectures, addresses, exhibitions and de- 
partment meetings during the year. Its work is divided into 
twenty-eight departments of art and science, each with its 
officers, committees and special programme for the year. The 
membership of each is composed partly of experts, partly of 
people with little special knowledge, but generally interested in 
the subject. Besides the general meetings, the departments get 
the benefit of lectures, etc., from the foremost men and women 
in that line. Professor Franklin W. Hooper is its executive 
head. 



LIBRARIES 

In the chapter on " Sights," the Astor and the Lenox Libraries 
have been located. These will be part of the great New York 
Public Library now building on Fifth Ave. and 42d St. The 
Carnegie Libraries, eighty in number, for the five boroughs, will 
be branches of this. The first of these is now in use at 79th 
St., between Second and Third Aves. Two others are almost 
completed, on East Broadway, near Chatham Square; on 140th 
St. and Alexander Ave., the Bronx. 

Two additional free libraries are the West Side Branch of the 
Y. M. C. A., 57th St., west of Eighth Ave., and Columbia Uni- 
versity, of. en till II P. M. 

The Brooklyn Library has its central building at 26 Brevoort 
place, and has nineteen branches. The Carnegie Libraries in 
this borough (20) belong to the Brooklyn, not the Manhattan, 
system. 



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EDUCATION 



In short compass it is impossible to do more than suggest the 
educational facilities and the institutions of the city. Under 
" Sights," the Columbia University and that of the University 
of New York are noted, and under " Government and Politics," 




CLINTON AVENUE, BROOKLYN. 



the location of the headquarters of the Public School System. 
In addition there are: the College of the City of New York (23d 
St. and Lexington Ave.) ; Barnard College and the Teachers' 
College (adjoining Columbia); Normal College (Park Ave. and 
68th St.); the Protestant Episcopal Seminary (Chelsea Square, 
Ninth Ave. and 2olh St.); Union Theological Seminary (Park 
Ave. and 69th St., Presbyterian); the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons (59th St., near Tenth Ave.); the Long Island College 
Hospital (Henry and Amity Sts., Brooklyn) ; the Polytechnic 



The Neiv York of Finance. 49 

Institute (Livingston St., near Court, Brooklyn); the Packer 
Institute (Joralemon St., near Court, Brooklyn) ; Adelphi Acad- 
emy (Lafayette Ave. and St. James place, Brooklyn); Pratt In- 
stitute, Ryerson St., Brooklyn (DeKalb Ave. cars) ; Cooper 
Institute, 8th St. and Third Ave.; St. John's College, Fordham, 
Bronx Borough (train from Grand Central Depot). There are 
many technical institutions besides. Visit Pratt Institute and 
Department ot Education for special information. 



THE NEW YORK OF FINANCE 

To get to Wall St. take Broadvi^ay car, or Sixth Ave. Elevated 
to Rector St. station. 

Finance in the city of New York is Wall Street in name, in 
practical reality it is Broad St., Broadway, Nassau St., Pine St., 
Cedar St., Exchange Place as well. All these streets together 
make up the Wall street centre. Wall Street itself, with Trinity 
Church at its head, is imposing, but no more important than the 
others. 

The new Stock Exchange is a three million dollar building 
on the site of the old exchange. Broad St. just south of Wall 
St. This is one of the greatest buildings for sightseers in 
New York, with its facade of Corinthian columns, each 52 feet 
high. Its board room, where the traffic in stocks goes on now 
more than ever, presents one of the most picturesque of Ameri- 
can scenes. Admission by card from members only. Visit it 
between two and three o'clock. 

This world of finance is delightful to visit. It should be en- 
tered down Wall St. from Broadway. From 10 to 4 this little 
section of streets is a jostling mass of men and boys. In an hour 
three hours' work is done. Thousands of clerks sit in offices 
pen in hand. Hundreds of chiefs, managers and customers are 
watching like ferrets the "tickers" or the "quotation boards" in 
these same offices. On the "floor," in obedience to orders to 
"buy" or "sell," the brokers are swinging the market back and 
forth. 

Wall St. is only partly speculation, none the less. More of it 
is solid investment, company-forming, exploitation of great finan- 
cial problems, commerce. Back of everything are the powerful 



50 Handbook of Neiv York. 

banks, the trust companies, the banking concerns, the railroad 
interests. These great concentrations of capital are hundreds in 
number, and they are the real "Napoleons of Finance." In cor- 
ners, and sometimes with splendid suites of offices, lurk the 
bucket shops and the swindling concerns that by big promises 
fleece the unwary man and woman. Four features of especial 
interest in connection with the "street" are: the groups of two 
and three men that carry large tin boxes — securities of great price, 
and coin; the Open Brokers' Board on Broad St., out in the 
street's very centre, where securities are bought and sold that are 
not listed on the Exchange; the truckman that carries from 
bankers' vaults to steamer bars of silver and boxes of gold in an 
open truck; the food venders who, wheeling little carts about the 
street, supply sweet food to office boys and junior clerks. 

All this district is lined with towering buildings of the most 
modern character, unsurpassed in the world. About Wall St. 
alone there are scores of them. In their magnificence they are 
perhaps the most notable sight of New York's section of finance. 
Some of those surely to be visited are the Broad Exchange 
Building (Broad St. and Exchange PL), the Johnston Building 
(opposite). Lord's Court (Exchange PI. and William St.), the 
Equitable Building (Broadway and Cedar), the Empire (Broad- 
way and Rector), the Washington Life on Broadway, just above 
the Equitable, the National Bank of Commerce, the Mutual Life, 
the Hanover National Bank (now building on the southwest 
corner of Nassau and Pine). These are but a few of that 
great group that has transformed Wall Street. 

In among these buildings of magnificent proportions are three 
others of very different character, the first, the Sub-Treasury, on 
the corner of Nassau and Wall, with J. Q. A. Ward's heroic 
statue of Washington on its steps (see chapter, "The New York 
of History") ; the second, the squatty Assay office alongside of 
it where the most interesting processes go on, and visitors are 
made welcome between lo and 2, and the third, the newly com- 
pleted Chamber of Commerce Building, between Broadway and 
Nassau St. on Liberty St., just now occupied, small beside the 
skyscrapers, but a structure of dignity and grace. The Cham- 
ber of Commerce was founded in 1768, and first met in 
Fraunces' Tavern. To be a member of it is a guarantee of 
mercantile standing. 

The Wall St. figures of prominence are not commonly seen, 
keeping close to their offices throughout each business day. J. 
Pierpont Morgan's offices on the southeast corner of Wall and 
Broad Sts. directly opposite the Sub-Treasury, are perhaps the 
" street's " most famous sight to-day, and Mr. Morgan is as 



The New York of Finance. 51 

frequent a figure as any other of the great ones. Russell Sage 
has his office in Nassau St. ; Jacob H. Schiff in Pine St. ; the 
Goulds in the old Western Union Building at Broadway and 
Dey St. ; the Rockefellers are in the Standard Oil Building at 
r6 Broadway; Cornelius Vanderbilt in the American Surety on 
Broadway at the corner of Pine St., and William C. Whitney 
may be said to centre his interests in the office he has in his 
Fifth Ave. mansion, at the corner of 68th St. 

Close to the Stock Exchange is another exchange that, in its 
early days operating mainly in oil, now does a general stock 
business, and follows in the footsteps of its great master on 
Broad St. — the Consolidated, at the corner of Broadway and 
Exchange Place. 

Legion is the name of the strong and mighty banks of New 
York. And now within the past few years have come into 
prominence another order of financial institutions^the trust 
companies — of which there are scores in Manhattan Borough 
alone. Among the banks and trust companies are : 

Chemical, 270 Broadway; Bank of New York, 48 Wall St.; 
Hanover, Nassau and Pine Sts. ; Bank of Commerce, Nassau and 
Cedar Sts.; American Exchange. 128 Broadway; Chase, 83 Cedat 
St.; City, 52 Wall St.; First National, 2 Wall St.; Western, 
Pine and Nassau Sts.; National Park, 214 Broadway; Me- 
chanics, 33 Wall St.; Fourth National, 14 Nassau St.; Second 
National, 23d St. and Fifth Ave.; Bank of America, 44 Wall 
St.; Mechanics, Court and Montague Sts., Brooklyn; National 
City, Fulton St. and Red Hook Lane, Brooklyn; Manufacturers' 
National, 84 Broadway, Brooklyn; Union, 44 Court St., Brook- 
lyn; Borough. 20 Court St., Brooklyn; Corn Exchange, Will- 
iam and Beaver Sts. ; Bank of the Manhattan Company, 40 Wall 
St.; Central, 320 Broadway. 

Trust Companies — Central, 54 Wall St.; Washington, 280 
Broadway; City, 36 Wall St.; Knickerbocker, Fifth Ave. and 
27th St.; Farmers' Loan and Trvist, 20 William St.; New York 
Security and Trust, 46 Wall St.; Manhattan, 20 Wall St.; Long 
Island Loan and Trust, Court and Joralemon Sts., Brooklyn; 
Brooklyn, Clinton and Montague Sts., Brooklyn; Franklin, Clin- 
ton and Montague Sts., Brooklyn; Williamsburgh, Broad- 
way and Kent Ave., Brooklyn; Central Realty Bond and 
Trust. 115 F»roadway; Trust Company of America, 149 Broad- 
way; Bowling Green, 26 Broadway; Colonial, 222 Broadway; 
Guaranty, 28 Nassau St.; Mercantile, 120 Broadway; Metropoli- 
tan, 37 Wall St.; Manufacturers, 198 Montague St., Brooklyn; 
Nassau, Broadway and Bedford Ave., Brooklyn; Hamilton, 191 
Montague St., Brooklyn; People's, 172 Montague St., Brooklyn; 



52 Handbook of New York. 

Kings County, 344 Fulton St., Brooklyn; Morton, 38 Nassau 
St.; Union, 80 Broadway; United States, 45 Wall St.; Lincoln, 
Pifth Ave., just above Madison Square. 

Brooklyn has a compact financial centre of its own, centering 
on Borough Hall Square, with its banks and trust companies 
chiefly on Montague, Court and Fulton Sts. 



THE NEW YORK OF WHOLESALE TRADE 

Broadway is the key when it comes to getting to any of the 
sections of wholesale commerce, though the Sixth and Third 
Ave. Elevated lines will carry the business man from uptown 
rather more expeditiously. Along Broadway, however, one is 
always in the heart of activity and the centre. This commerce 
of New York has come to be almost beyond measure. New 
York's imports are 560 million dollars yearly, her manufac- 
tures 1,371 millions, her trade from the interior over 450 
millions. 

Interesting evidences of this are to be seen in the down town 
streets crowded with carts and trucks, in the Laight St. (on the 
west side just below Canal St.) freight depot and along the North 
and East River fronts, where goods are despatched on steamships 
and on freight cars upon floats, and received from them. West 
St., the water-front street of the North River, takes the brunt 
of this shipping, and the scenes here could only be dimly pic- 
tured by pen or photograph. 

Wholesale trade stops at 23d St. For two miles south of this 
point, on either side of Broadway, stretches out the great whole- 
sale dry goods trade, with all its branches of novelties and manu- 
facture, ready made garments for women and men, cloths, under- 
clothes, accessories. To the west of this is the wholesale 
grocery trade, close to the North River, with its Gansevoort 
Market (open air) just below 14th St., and the most important 
end of this section centering around Reade St., only a little 
above the City Hall. 

Below Fulton St., on the east side of Broadway, come the 
wholesale jewellers, to the west of Broadway the machinery and 
tool makers. Down towards the East River from the City Hall 
is the "swamp," where leather is traded in. To the south of 
these merchants are the tobacco men, and with them the drug 
handlers. Below are tea, sugar, coffee, spices, cotton, fish. 



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53 



grain, this strip of merchants on the east side winding ,down 
close to the Battery into the very door of the Produce Exchange 
at Bowling Green. Up Broadway are the coal men and the 
steamship companies, leaving in the centre the valuable lump 
of Wall St., Broad St., Exchange Place, Cedar, Pine, Nassau, 
the eyrie of the banks and New York's finance. 

Not the least interesting thing about New York's greater 
commerce are the gigantic markets in which the business of 
food is waged and where before dawn the traffic begins. There 
are five markets of the first rank in the city — West Washington, 
Washington, Gansevoort, Wallabout and Fulton. Gansevoort 
is simply an open square of about four city blocks, where 
farmers' wagons filled with produce range themselves late each 
night. The other markets noted are, as it were, specially built 
villages of stalls, booths and shops, each covering many streets. 
These do not lack the features of farmers' and peddlers' wag- 






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TRAFFIC ON WEST ST., THE NORTH RIVER FRONT. 
(By courtesy of the New Turk ^tail and Express.) 



ons, and their sidewalks and streets are crowded from 4 o'clock 
until nearly 9 o'clock each morning with wagons, boxes, barrels 
and enorm.ous quantities of piled up vegetables, fruits, fowl and 
meats. 

The locations of these markets and some idea of their size, 
as evidenced by the fees the dealers and farmers using them 



54 Handbook of Nciv York. 

pay to the city, are: Washington (established 1813) Wash- 
ington and Fulton, $53,000; Wallabout, Flushing and Clin- 
ton Aves., Brooklyn (Flushing Ave. car across the Bridge), 
$56,000, principally served by farmers from Long Island; Ganse- 
voort. West and Little West 12th Sts. (take car across 14th St. 
to West St.), $6,614; West Washington, adjoining Gansevoort 
and on the North River front, $106,800; Fulton (established 
1821), Fulton and South Sts., $40,000. 

Besides these, along First Ave., up by 40th St., notably, and 
in Brooklyn close to the Atlantic Ave. Depot at Flatbush Ave.; 
on Hudson Ave., by Tillary St., and on Johnson Ave., by White 
St. (in the Eastern District), there are great slaughtering, 
dressing and meat selling plants where this great interest 
centres. 

Smaller markets are not, of course, lacking. Few of the 
older ones remain, but there is still doing business Catharine 
Market, on the East River front and Catharine St. — this being 
the street that runs up from the river to Chatham Square (where 
the Bowery begins). Said to have been established in 1786. 

In addition to these there is the Fulton Fish Market, oppo- 
site Fulton Market and directly on the East River. Fishing 
boats sail up to its very doors and discharge their cargoes in 
the rear of the stalls. Around the corner from this, on the 
sidewalk of Peck Slip, close to South St., there is each morn- 
ing an open air street market of Jewish fish peddlers buying at 
auclion. This market's hour is also daybreak. 

Another is the Flower Market, which now has split into two. 
One of these is close to the East 34th St. Ferry, the second on 
upper floor of a tall building on the northeast corner of Sixth 
Ave. and 27th St. The flowers are usually brought in huge 
baskets. The whcilesale flower trade itself is on 28th and 29th 
Sts., between Si.xth Ave. and Broadway. 

Those who would further view the New York of Wholesale 
Trade should go over to the great railroad yards all along the 
Jersey City shore (any ferry) and see the unloading of trains 
and the reshipping; the New York Central R.R.'s yards, above 
59th St. and west of Tenth Ave.; the huge freight yard of 
Mott Haven in the Bronx (take Webster Ave. car from 129th 
St. and Third Ave.) ; the railroad terminus at Long Island 
City, not forgetting the l^aight St. freight station on New 
York's lower west side, noted above. 

Outside of its markets, Brooklyn has little of a wholesale 
trade interest, Riclmioiul, Oueens and the r.ronx practically none. 
All, however, are great centers of active traffic. 

Even if no other reason should carry him there, the visitor to 



The Water Front and Manufacturing. 55 

New York must journey down Broadway from Madison Square 
(23d St.) to City Hall and the Post, Office. In no other way 
can he gain so comprehensive an idea of the city's prodigious 
wholesaling. Along almost its entire length there are splendid 
loft buildings, eight to ten stories high. The old Broad Weg 
has become only a narrow caiion. The side streets to east and 
west show the same picture of ample structures, with building 
never at an end. Here are the " stocks " of " dry " goods for 
wellnigh the entire country. In the cioss streets close to 23d 
are millinery and embroideries. 

See chapter, " The Water Front and Manufacturing." 



THE WATER FRONT AND MANUFACTURING 

A comprehensive survey of New York's water front and its 
manufacturing, its warehouses and the water end of its com- 
merce would take a quarto in stout binding. The subject is vast, 
the interests involved tremendous. 

In one word, visitor or resident New Yorker should go and 
see for himself. Below are some directions for a profitable 
series of tours that will unfold some of the story of New 
York's manufacturing and maritime greatness. 

Take Pennsylvania R.R. ferryboat from foot of West 23d St. 
Change at Jersey City to Bnooklyn Annex. Back the same way. 

West St. car from 59th St. and Tenth Ave. down the 
Hudson River front to fhe Battery. Change to South St. car 
up East River front to 59th St. 

Take ferry at East 4 2d St. to Broadway, Brooklyn, from there 
ferry to Roosevelt St., Manhattan. Back the same way. 

Take ferry foot East 23d St. to Greenpoint, then trolley car 
(Crosstown) to Hamilton Ave. Change to Hamilton Ave. car, 
then to Third Ave. car. Go on Third Ave. car to 39th St.; then 
ferry to Battery (Manhattan). 

The Produce Exchange and the Maritime Exchange are to- 
gether in the big Produce Exchange Building on Bowling Green 
at the foot of Broadway. This structure might well be spoken 
of as the heart of the shipping and commerce. It stands prac- 
tically in the geographical centre of the city. 



56 Handbook of Nezv York. 

The Jersey shore is more especially for the piers of the rail- 
road companies. The North River side of Manhattan, some 
fifteen miles of water front, is the landing place of the ocean 
liners, Sound and some coastwise steamers. Freight and pas- 
senger handling on the largest New York 'scale is done here. 
Between Perry and Gansevoort Sts., just above loth St., are 
the first five of the new piers of the city, completed. These 
are some i.ooo feet long and 200 feet wide. Others are to 
be built by the Dock Department of New York from this point 
to 23d St., and yet others along the East River at several points. 
The East River front does much railroad and steamboat coast- 
wise business, and at Clinton St. has a large dry dock. Its 
famous " Canal Boat Village," at Coenties Slip, has been moved 
to Erie Basin, Brooklyn. 

On the lower Jersey shore and the Staten Island (Richmond 
Borough) shore are the Standard Oil Works, the Baltimore and 
Ohio R. R. freight terminus, warehouses, linseed oil, flour mills, 
linoleum and terra cotta manufactories, ship building yards, 
plaster mills, and on Shooter's Island, in Staten Island Sound, 
a yacht constructing plant. Around from Newark Bay and that 
city of manufactories comes much tributary commerce. 

The Brooklyn water front is thirty-three miles in extent, and 
begins with Newtown Creek and its many industries, promi- 
nent among which is oil refining. From here to the Erie Basin, 
ten miles away, there is a succession of freight terminals, coal 
pockets, storehouses, three or four of the largest sugar refineries 
in the world, then Wallabout Basin and the Navy Yard, and 
following these miles of warehouses of long establishment. 
These latter, with the fine residential section of Brooklyn 
Heights, on a hill in plain view immediately above them, face 
lower Manhattan Island picturesquely. 

The line of warehouses extends down past Governor's Island, 
the military headquarters of the Department of the East of the 
Army. A change has come over this section of the Brooklyn 
water front of recent years, however. The grain trade, once 
the largest in America here, has gone, and the old elevators 
are being dismantled. New warehouses are rising in their 
places and foreign steamship lines are docking at this point. 
The New York Dock Company has taken the old Atlantic Basin 
and has dredged it and widened its entrance to admit the 
largest vessels at any tide. One of its piers is the largest in 
the world, 1,250 feet long. In this Basm goods are transferred 
directly from the steamers to railroad cars, which run in under 
the piers. 

Below this is the Erie Basin, 161 f.cres with a mile of break- 



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57 



water, including stores for grain, general merchandise and 
chemicals. Here come ocean timber rafts and sawed lumber. 
Here are very large dry docks, marine railways and two cele- 
brated yacht building plants, Poillon's and Wintringham's. Here 
also is New York's Canal Boat Village of the winter months. 

Beyond the Erie Basm are further docks and storehouses 
down to 65th St., where there is a bluff to the Narrows. Across 
at this point is Fort Wadsworth (on Staten Island). Below 
here, where Gravesend Bay comes into the Lower Bay, is Fort 
Hamilton and Fort Lafayette and Coney Island. 

New York's manufactures could only be chronicled by men- 
tioning products by the thousand. In brief, it may be said that 
the greater part of Manhattan Island's manufacturing is to the 
extreme east or west, close to the rivers. That of the Bronx 
is at its lower end, close to the Harlem and the East rivers. 
Brooklyn's factories s],read out widely. They fringe the East 
River and the Lower Bay and extend into many other sections, 
covering notably South Brooklyn and a strip between the East- 
ern and the Western Districts, as well as much of Williamsburgh 
(on either side of Broadway) and Greenpoint. Oil and sugar 
have already been spoken of as two of Brooklyn's products. 
Another is fine hats. 




IN CENTRAL PARK. 



58 Handbook of Nciv York. 

THE HOTELS 

Some of New York's hotels have already been noted in the 
chapter on "Fashionable New York." 

They — the hotels actually upon Fifth Ave. and of some con- 
cern in its life — are but a drop in the bucket in comparison 
with the New York hotel world as a whole; the thousands from 
West, East and South that come flooding here by train on every 
hand, make up an army ot sightseers, shoppers and pleasure- 
takers by themselves. 

There are yet thousands of others who come more prosaically 
and less as the butterfly, on business bent, but combining a little 
enjoyment with it, a few hours each day. Together these two 
classes comi)rise New York's huge floating ])opulation, unnum- 
bered, that leaves unlimited money on Manhattan Island. 

Between 23d and 59th Sts., Lexington Ave. and Seventh is 
the metropolis' "hotel belt," hotels scattering besides down to 
the City Hall and over on the Heights in Brooklyn overlooking 
the Bay. No one has ever attempted to figure exactly New 
York's hotel population. It is a calculation that would have to 
be changed each few months as new hostelries spring up, 
assured investments for capitalists. 

i:.legance and luxury in the extreme mark the representative 
IN ew York hotel. No private residence can be fitted out more 
exquisitely than its suites of rooms, no machinery can be more 
perfect than its corps of trained servants. As a phase of 
American city life alone, the most celebrated hotels of New 
York furnish no small amount of entertainment. Visitors to the 
city who are content with more modest accommodation and New 
Yorkers themselves should not fail to go the rounds over these 
"nublic houses" evolved from the Dutch and English Inn of some 
generations ago. 

Some of the more notable hotels of New York are: 

The Holland House, Fifth Ave. and 30th St. Decidedly fash- 
ionable. 

'J'he Waldorf-Astoria, Fifth Ave., 33d and 34th Sts. Very 
gorgeous in its appointments, with its splendid "Astor Gallery" 
and many banqueting rooms. The corridors on the first floor 
are filled every night with strangers from all parts of America 
who try to pose as personages. Prominent people drift back 
and forth during the evening. This is one of the largest hotels 
in the country, perhaps the largest. Accommodates 1,300 people. 

The Imperial, Broadway and 32d 

The Fifth Avenue, Broadway and 23d. Rather far "down 
town" now. 

The Savoy, southeast corner 59th St. and Fifth Ave. 

Hotel Netherlands, northeast corner 59th St. and Fifth Ave. 

Murray Hill, Park Ave., 40th and 41st. 

Manhattan, Madison Ave. at 42d. Very handsome decora- 
tions. 

Grand Union, opposite Grand Central Station, 42d St. and 
Park Ave. 

Gilsey House, Broadway and 29th. 

Grand, Broadway and 31st. 

The Buckingham. Very fashionable. Fifth Ave. at soth. 

The .Brevoort. Lower Fifth Ave., corner of 8th St. Old 
house, much favored by foreigners. 

The Astor House. Famous down town hotel, long ^sta,blish^<i, 
Broadway opposite Park Row. 



The Hotels. 59 

Herald Square, 34th St., west of Broadway. 

Continental Hotel, Broadway and 20th St. 

Everett House, facing Union Square, 17th St. and 4th Ave. 

Broadway Central. Popular with business men from the 
South. 676 Broadway, in wholesale dry goods district. 

Albemarle, Broadway and 24th St. 

Hoflfman House, Broadway and 25th St. 

Plaza, sStli, 59th and Fifth Ave. 

Majestic (Central Park West and 72d), and the Empire (Co- 
lumbus Ave. and 66th) are the upper West Side hotels. 

St. George — Clark and Hicks Sts., Brooklyn. 

Clarendon --Washington and Johnson Sts., Brooklyn. 

Pierrepont — Montague and Hicks Sts., Brooklyn. 

AFansion House — Hicks St., south of Clark, Brooklyn. 

The St. Marks Ave. — Bedford and St. Marks Aves., Brooklyn. 



Along v/ith the hotels are the gigantic apartment houses and 
a new development for New York of the past few years — the 
apartment hotels, built only for permanent guests, and offering 
the advantages of both home and hotel life, furnishing apart- 
ments and service, with meals in their restaurants or served in 
the apartments as in a private house. 

Two apartment houses of New York of particular interest to 
visitors are the "' Spanish Flats," Central Park South and Sev- 
enth Ave., and the " Dakota," 72d St. and Central Park West. 
These are specified for the reason that their names have become 
noted to New Yorkers. Fifty more of greater magnificence and 
far more modern might be mentioned. 

The great new buildings which will surpass all within a year 
or so have among them: New Hotel Brunswick, Fifth Ave. and 
26th St. ($7,500,000); Hotel Knickerbocker, Broadway and 42d 
St. ($2,500,000); Hotel Astor (William Waldorf Astor), Long 
Acre Square and /14th St. ($1,000,000); the Ansonia, Broadway 
and 73d St. ($3,500,000, W. E. I). vStokes) ; Hotel Terminus, 
Park Ave., 4ist_to 42d St. ($2,500,000); Hotel St. Regis (John 
Jacob Astor), Fifth Ave. and 55th St. ($3,000,000). 

Ill Brooklyn: Hotel Woodruff, on site of present Pierrepont 
House. 



A "Woman's Hotel" was started early in the year, and is in 
very successful operation -the Hotel Martha Washington, on 
29th and 30th Sts. (two entrances), between Fourth and Madison 
Aves. 



60 Handbook of New York. 

NEW YORK'S PARKS AND DRIVES 

Central Park was once the park system of New York. Now 
it is but the commencement of a chain of driveways, high roads 
and garden spots that, planned on a sumptuous scale, make 
possible many miles of pleasure tours without once touching 
city pavements. Ten years will mean much for the development 
and harmonizing of this chain, but even to-day it is practical. 

Central Park, as was said in the first pages of this book, is 
a big rectangle of greenery in the heart of Manhattan Island. 
Out of it westward a short boulevard — 726. St. — runs to the 
Hudson's bank. Then commences the Riverside Drive along 
that bank, curving, undulating, finely picturesque, especially 
when crowded of a Sunday. (Electric stages run from the 
Park to the end of the Drive, the domed Grant's Tomb and 
the restaurant of Claremont.) 

Beyond Claremont the road crosses a steel viaduct spanning 
130th St., and then turns away from the river up upon Wash- 
ington Heights, the narrow, northernmost end of Manhattan 
Island. Thence a driveway and a park system has been laid 
out over Bronx Borough (old Westchester) to the Long Island 
Sound shore, Pelham and Eastchester Bays. On the northern 
boundary of the city lies the great Van Cortlandt Park, 1,132 
acres. To its southeast is Bronx Park, 661 acres; on the Sound 
front Pelham Bay Park, 1,750 acres. 

Across Washington Bridge the drive comes, over the Harlem, 
along Sedgwick Ave. to Van Cortlandt Park, thence down the 
Mosholu Parkway into Bronx Park, then down the Bronx and 
Pelham Parkway to Pelham Bay Park. Upper New York has 
been completly circumnavigated, and from Central Park 20 miles 
or more covered. In no other way can the great parkway sys- 
tem of the metropolis be so well understood. 

The better to join together these links a great concourse or 
boulevard is being laid out over the hills of the Bronx, due north- 
ward from the Harlem River, separating Manhattan Island and 
the Bronx, to Mosholu Parkway. This concourse will connect 
with Seventh Ave., Manhattan, a driving road coming up from 
Central Park and with the viaduct leading down from Wash- 
ington Heights at 155th St. It will cost four millions of dollars, 
and will be 182 feet wide. 

Central Park (see chai)ter, "Fashionable New York") has 843 
acres, and all its beauties are artificial, "built up," a triumph 
of landscape gardening. It was a rocky waste when taken in 
hand. Its features are: its lakes, its ornamental stone terrace, 
its Belvedere or tower, its Mall or Promenade, its Egyptian 
Obelisk, its Ramble, its small but amusing menagerie. There 



Nc7v York's Parks and Drives. 61 

are gates to enter it everywhere. In Central Park is the Metro- 
politan Museum of Art (see chapter, "Galleries, Museums, 
'I'heatres and Music"). 

Central Park has a very good collection of animals, the Zoo 
being hy the arsenal. This must not be confused, however, with 
the extraordinarily fine Zoological Park in the Bronx. 

Prospect Park in Brooklyn (take Flatbush Ave. car from 
Brooklyn Bridge) is, on the other hand, of entirely natural 
beauty. It has 516 acres, and its most noted points are the 
flower garden, the "Vale of Cashmere" and "Battle Pass," where 
the hardest fight of the Battle of Long Island was waged. 

From Prospect Park the splendid Ocean Parkway, a broad 
drive, leads to the Ocean at Coney Island. Another great 
Brooklyn Boulevard is the Shore Drive, beginning close to 
Prospect Park and skirting the east shore of New York's Upper 
and Lower Bays, around the Narrows, to Fort Hamilton, giving 
one of the finest views of the harbor. 

Like Prospect Park in Brooklyn, the great new parks of the 
Bronx are all natural. Pelham Bay Park fronts on the Sound, 
and presents beautiful shore landscapes. Not an acre of it has 
ever been touched by " improvements." Van Cortlandt Park 
is an old estate that the city bought in, together with its Manor 
House, which is now being built up into a historical museum. 
Here is a public golfing ground, to be reached from New York 
by Putnam R.R. train to Van Cortlandt station, from terminus 
of Sixth Ave. Elevated, 155th St., and a fine parade ground, 
where the National Guafd holds mimic battles. 

Bronx Park, on either side of the very beautiful Bronx River, 
has its Lorillard Mansion, its snuff mills, with their ghost story 
and the hemlock grove. It has been given over entirely to the 
Botanical Garden and the Zoological Park (which see— also for 
directions as to reaching). 

Another of the new, natural pleasuring grounds is Forest 
Park (536 acres, and thus larger than Prospect Park), a genuine 
woodland park on the heights to the east of Ridgewood, Brook- 
lyn. It afi'ords fine views of the Atlantic Ocean and Long Island 
Sound. Public golf links are one of its features. Close be- 
side it is Highland Park (26 acres), up on the Heights of 
Ridgewood and joined to Prospect Park and Ocean Parkway 
by Eastern Parkway and Eastern Parkway Extension (a drive- 
way four and three-quarter miles long). Take Brooklyn Ele- 
vated to East New York, Cypress Hills Cemetery. 

Fourth of the great parkways of Brooklyn that are joining the 
parks and the ocean front is Fort Hamilton Ave., extending from 
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THE " EAST DRIVE," CENTRAL PARK. 
By the courtesy of the New York Mail and Express. 

«.he New Utrecht plain to the Army reservation of Fort Hamil- 
ton, four anrl one-half miles. 

Many minor parks of the boroughs remain to be briefly noted. 
These are: 

Manhattan — Riverside Drive's winding boundaries include, it 
should be noted, a strip of park along the Hudson from yzd 
to 129th St. (140 acres). Along the cliff at 113th St. West 
where St. Luke's Hospital and the Cathedral of St. John the 
Divine are, has been created a park effect with steps down 
from above (31 acres). This is Morningside Park. Up in 
Harlem there is a very beautiful old park. Mount Morris, of 20 
acres (Madison Ave., 120th to 124th Sts.). Hudson Park (Hud- 
son and Leroy Sts., on the lower west side) is the old Leroy 
St. (St. John's) burying ground, made into a perfect little park 
of less than two acres, with its centre sunk and a stone kiosk of 
French design giving it much grace. 

Brooklyn — Fort Greene Park (30 acres), sec chapter, "New 
York of Hhiory end Landmarks" ; Bedford, 4 acres, Brooklyn 
Ave. and Park Place; Sunset, 14 acres, 41st St. and Fifth Ave.; 
Dyker Beach, 144 acres (adjoins Fort Hamilton Government 
Reservation). Seaside, to be New York's only seaside park, is 
to be placed at the west end of Coney Island. 

Bronx — Crotona, 154 acres, Third Ave., 170th to 175th St. 



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BOTANICAL GARDENS AND ZOOLOGICAL 

PARK 

Two newly established sights of the city. Both are located 
in the jiicturesque Eionx Park in the heart of Bronx Borough. 
The Botanical Garden is the Park's northern half, the Zoological 
Park the southern. Each is now well equipped and constant 
additions are being made. 

Both Park and Garden can be visited the same day. Each 
covers about 250 acres, however, and one needs to be a good 
walker to view them thoroughly. To get to the Garden take 
Harlem R.R. at Grand Central Station (42d St.) to Bedford Park 
(name of station) or "I'^ordham" trolley car from Third Ave at 
129th St. To reach the animals take the same train or the same 
trolley car and alight at Fordham station. From here it is 
over a half mile to the Zoological Park entrance, t)vit hacks are 
always at hand. Admission to Garden free at any time, to 
Park free except on Mondays and Thursdays (25 cents). 

The Botanical Garden's features are its great museum build- 
ing, its glass houses of great size, its fine plantations and gar- 
dens, its groves. The scenery of Bronx Park is very beautiful. 
The Zoological Park already has an extraordinary collection of 
reptiles and a fine one of birds. Its "flying cage" for birds, of 
great height and length, is highly interesting. The Zoological 
Park is laid out on a grand scale, and the animals as far as 
possible (except in the cases of savage beasts) are left free 
and in a state of nature in great ranges in place of being shut 
up in buildings. A Lion House has just been completed. 

Scientists of great repute preside over these popular collections: 
over the Garden, Professor Nathaniel L. l>ritton; over the 
Zoological Park, Professor VV. T. Hornaday. 



MONUMENTS, STATUES, ARCHES 

The city has many monuments and statues, but few that are 
remarkable. It will save time if only those of real interest are 
given, instead of a long, vinwieldy, next to useless, list. 

The Grant Mo.^;u^lENT — Domed marble mausoleum, where 
both General Grant and his widow are now entombed. On the 
banks of the Hudson, Riverside Drive, at Claremont, 124th St. 
Dedicated 1897. 

Heroic Bronze Figure of George Washington, on the steps 
of the Sub-Treasury, Wall St. The work of J. Q. A. Ward. 

The Washington Arch — Washington Square. Designed at 
the time of the Washington Centennial Celebration, 1889. 

Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch — Plaza in front of 
Prospect Park, Brooklyn. The bronze equestrian group sur- 
mounting it, the Quadriga, is the work of Frederick Mac- 
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Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument^ completed 1902. River- 
side Drive and 89th St. 

The Bartholdi Statue of Liberty Enlightening the 
World — Colossal copper figure, 305 feet i inch, above low 
watei marie, on a little island in the Upper Bay, Liberty Island. 
Take boat from Battery. The figure has a staircase leading to 
its top that may be climbed. Presented by French Government, 
J 386. 

The Egyptian Obelisk— Alongside of the Metropolitan Mu- 
seum of Art. A granite shaft, 70 feet high. Presented by the 
Khedive of Egypt and set U]) here in 18S1. Its mate is on the 
Thames Embankment, London. Interesting hieroglyphics. 

Beecher Monument — A I)ronze group in the park facing 
Borough Hall, Brooklyn. 

Nathan Hale Statue— In City Kail Park, on Broadway. 
Fine bronze figure, life size. Erected by the Sons of the Revo- 
lution, 1893. 




TOMB OK PETER STUYVESANT, 

ST. mark's church. 



Ericsson, the inventor — At the Battery. This statue is to 
be replaced by another at the plea of the sculptor. It has been 
in place ten years. 

Martyrs' Monument — Trinity Churchyard, opposite Pine St. 
Elaborate. In memory of the martyrs of Revolutionary prison 
ships. 

CoLUMBi's Monument — Tall white shaft. Circle, Eighth Ave. 
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Alexandkk Ha.milto.n' — Statvie in front of the Hamilton Club, 
Clinton and Remsen Sts., Brooklyn. 

Grant Equestrian Statue — Opposite Union League Club, Bed- 
ford Ave. and Dean St., Brooklyn. 

Worth Monument — Madison Square. Erected in 1857. 
Curious survival. In memory of Major General Worth. 
Erected 1857. 

Statue of J. S. T. Stranaiian — Prospect Park, Brooklyn. 

Maryland Monument — Prospect Park, on Lookout Hill. A 
memorial of the Battle of Long Island. 

L.\wrence Monument — In Trinity Churchyard, by church 
doors on Broadway side. In memory of Captain James 
Lawrence. 

The Heine Fountain, 1899 — -iSist St. and Mott Ave., Bronx 
Borough. This is where the new drive, the Grand Concourse, 
spoken of in detail elsewhere, will commence. To visit this take 
Third Ave. car from 129th St., transfer to i6ist St. car going 
west. 

Horace Greeley Statue — At entrance of Tribune Building. 

Farragut Statue — In Madison Square Park. 

The Pilgrim — By J. Q. A. Ward. Central Park, near East 
72A. St. entrance. 

Richard M. Hunt Memorial — Fifth Ave., along the Central 
Park wall, opposite the Lenox Library, at 70th St. 

Bust of Mozart — Flower Garden, Prospect Park, Brooklyn. 



THE GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS 

The Mayor's office is in the City Hall, where also the Alder- 
men meet in a big chamber of their own and where there is the 
historic "Governor's Room," lined with interesting portraits 
and possessing the desk at which Washington wrote his first 
message to Congress. The City Hall is undoubtedly the 
finest specimen of municipal architecture in America. 

In the City Hall as well is the office of the President of 
the Borough of Manhattan. Each of the five boroughs of New 
York has its president or executive officer (a sort of deputy 
mayor) to preside over local matters. The power of these 
borough presidents has been much extended since the first 
Charter of the Greater New York was adopted. 

The city is divided into 35 local districts, each electing two 
aldermen, each having its own board empowered to carry out 
small improvements. 

Back of the City Hall is the Court House. Back of this, on 
Chambers St., facing the City Hall Park, a magnificent new Hall 
of Records, taking up half a big block, is being constructed. 
Seven or eight blocks up Centre St., the first street to the east, 
is the Tombs (the City Prison) and the Criminal Courts Building. 
The Tombs, a gloomy Egyptian pile, was until recently one of 
the chief sights of New York. The last of it has just been 
pulled down, however, to make way for a more modern prison. 

Nearly all of the city departments are in rented buildings. 



66 Handbook of Nezv York. 

the Stewart Building (Broadway and Chambers St.) and the 
Syndicate Building (Park Row, opposite the Post Office) hold- 
ing the most of them. Police Headquarters are on Mulberry 
St. near Houston (three blocks east of Broadway). Fire Head- 
quarters, 67th St. near Third Ave.; the Health Department, 55th 
St. and Sixth Ave. ; the Board of Education, Park Ave. and 
59th. 

Politics has its chief outward expression for the visitor in 
Tammany Hall (14th St. near Third Ave.) and in one end of 
the corridor of the Fifth Ave. Hotel (Broadway and 23d St.), 
called the "Amen Corner." where Republican statesmen get 
together. Except during a campaign, however, Tammany Hall 
is grim - and dull. The political machinery does not show. 
There are a host of social clubs, besides, in which politics is 
played. (See chapter, "New York Clubdom.") 

Brooklyn's old City Hall, in City Hall I'ark, has been made 
Borough Hall. The fine Brooklyn Post Office is on the opposite 
corner from the Eagle Building, at Washington and Johnson 
Sts. Brooklyn's Fire Headquarters is on Jay St., near Myrtle 
Ave. 



ITEMS OF NOTE ABOUT NEW YORK 

Some noted tall buildings in New York are: Bowling Green 
(19 stories), 5-11 Broadway; St. Paul (.?6 stories), Ann St. and 
Broadway; American Surety {2^ stories), Broadway and Pine 
St.; American Tract (23 stories), Nassau and Spruce Sts.; the 
Fuller, " Flatiron " (20 stories), 23d St. and Broadway; Bank 
of Commerce (20 stories), Nassau and Cedar Sts.; Park Row, 
" Syndicate" (29 stories), opposite Post Office. 

Among the suburbs arc Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Fort Hamil- 
ton, Bergen Beach, Manhattan Beach, Brighton Beach, North 
Beach, all part of Brooklyn. Manhattan and Brighton Beaches 
are part of Coney Island (trolley cars from Bridge or Long 
Island R.R.) Bay Ridge and Fort Hamilton, take Third Ave. 
trolley from Bridge. Bergen Beach, Flatbush Ave. car. North 
Beach, trolley from Long Island City, and Flushing Ave. car 
from Brooklyn Bridge — and from Broadway ferry. 

There are some thirty "Settlements" in New York and Brook- 
lyn. If Settlement work is to be studied or made an excuse for 
sightseeing, these three should be visited: The Nurses' Settle- 
ment, 287 Henry St. (Grand St. cars on the .East Side to Henry 
St.), Miss Lillian D. Wald; the big building of the University 
Settlement. Rivington and Eldridge .Sts. (walk east down Riving- 
ton St. from Bowery), Robert Hunter; East Side House (foot 
East 76th St., Second Ave. car), Clarence Gordon. 

Masonic Temples — Sixth Ave. and 23d St.; Aurora Grata 
Cathedral. Bedford Ave. and Madison St., Brooklyn. 

Public Bath Houses are a new feature of the citv. The first 



Items of Note about Neiu York. 67 

of these is i'.i Rivington St., near Goerck. Three mere are to 
be built in Manhattan and two in Brooklyn — one of the Man- 
hattan baths in Seward Park, on the East Side, one of the 
Brooklyn baths on Hicks St., near Degraw. 

Recreation Piers are located at foot of East 3d, East 24th, 
Last 112th, foot of West 129th, West 50th and Barrow Sts., 
Manhattan, and foot of North 2d St., Brooklyn. 

The daily papers best give the piers from which steamships 
and steamboats sail, but for convenience the piers of a few are 
appended: American Line, Fulton St., X. R. (North River); 
Clyde Lnie, West loth St., N. R.; Ward Line, Wall St., E. R. 
(Last River); Cromwell Line,. Pier No. 9, N. R. ; Quebec Steam- 
ship Co., West loth St.. N. R. ; Red Star Line, Fulton St., N. R. ; 
North German Lloyd, Gansevoort St., N. R., and Hoboken; New 
York and Cuba Mail, Wall St., E. R. ; Red "D," Robert Stores- 
Brooklvn; Mallory Line, Burling Slip, E. R. ; Anchor Line, West 
2.|th St., N. R. ; French Line, Morton St., N. R. ; Atlantic Trans- 
port Line, West Houston St., N. R. ; Old Dominion, Beach St., 
N. R. ; Savannah Line, Spring St., N. R. ; Cunard line, foot Jane 
St., N. R. ; Hamburg American, foot ist St., Hoboken, N. J.; 
Hudson River Day Line and Mary Powell, Desbrosses St., N. 
R.; Citizens' Line (Troy), West loth St., N. R. ; Montauk Steam- 
boat Co., Pier No. 13, E. R. ; Patten Line, West 13th St., N. R., 
and Battery; People's Line, Canal St., N. R. ; Central Hudson 
Steamboat Co., Franklin St., N. R. ; Fall River Line, Warren St., 
N. R. ; Providence Line, Murray St., N. R. ; Stonington and Nor- 
wich Line, Spring St., N. R. ; Hartford Line, Pier No. 24, E. R. 

The great newspaper buildings are on " Newspaper Row," 
Printing House Square, opposite City Hall Park to the east. 
The exceptions are the New York Herald and the Brooklyn 
Eagle, the former at Herald Square, 35th St. and Broadway; the 
latter at Washington and Johnson Sts., Brooklyn (take any 
Brooklyn Borough Hall car). 

The locations of the chief armories are: Seventh Regiment, 
Park Ave., 69th St.; Twenty-third Regiment, Bedford and At- 
lantic Aves., Brooklyn; Twenty-second Regiment., Broadway 
and 68th St.; Thirteenth Regiment (Heavy Artillery), Sumner 
and Putnam Aves., Brooklyn; Squadron A, Madison Ave., 94th 
St.; Troop C, North Portland ave.. Auburn Place, Brooklyn; 
Naval Brigade, First Battalion, ship New Hampshire, foot East 
24th St.; Second Battalion, foot 55th St., Brooklyn. 

Arsenal, Seventh Ave. and ssth St. The old State Arsenal is 
m Central Park, and is now used for a portion of the Central 
Park Menagerie. 

Athletic Grounds in the city include: Polo Grounds, Eighth 
Ave. and 157th St.; New York Athletic, Travers' Island (New 
Haven R.R. to Pelham Manor); Berkeley Oval. Morris Heights 
(New York and Putnam R.R.); Y. M. C. A. Athletic, 150th 
St. and Harlem River; Manhattan Field, Eighth Ave. and 155th 
St. In Brooklyn there are: Crescent Athletic, Bay Ridge (Third 
Ave. trolley ca'-s) ; Parade Ground, Prospect Park (Ninth Ave. 
car); Base Ball Grounds, Third St., between Third and Fourth 
Aves. In Jersey: Grounds of Knickerbocker Athletic Club (sta- 
tion, Ave." A, Central R.R. of New Jersey, Bayonne). On 
Staten Island: Staten Island Cricket Club at Livingston. 

Rockaway Beach, a popular summer day resort, is to be reached 
by boat or Long Island R.R. Outside of Coney Island, it is the 
largest of the seashore attractions. South and Midland Beaches 
are on Staten Island (ferry boat from the Battery, then trolley). 



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CONEY ISLAND 

Coney Island, the entertaining pleasure ground by the sea of 
New York and New York's visitors, will have far more than 
usual about it this summer. Besides the sections of great hotels, 
the Oriental, the Manhattan Beach and the Brighton, with their 
firework scenic displays, their music and their good dining, 
and besides the life of the "Bowery," the bathing, the picnick- 
ing and the crowds of the West End, some elaborately and 
brilliantly planned attractions are to make the Island a Mecca 
for warm days and nights. 

It is needless to tell any resident or any visitor how to get to 
Coney Island. The daily papers give a score of ways. By trolley 
from, the Bridge is always a direct journey and not a long trip. 

These are some of Coney Island's attractions for 1903: 

Luna Park, " New York's World's Fair," to cover the big 
plot of ground bounded by Surf Ave., 8th St., Coney Island 
Creek and 12th St., the old Sea Lion Park grounds. Trolley 
cars from Brooklyn and New York have their terminus along- 
side of it. The " Midway " idea carried out very beautifully and 
with great elaboration. Thompson & Dundy. 

Tilyou's Steeplechase, newly made up, and Park, with many 
special amusement features. Located at the Sea Gate end of the 
Bov/ery. 

The Johnstown Flood, panorama. Before and during the 
catastrophe. Seen from aYi amphitheatre. 

The Coal Mine. A trip through it in little cars. 

The Old Mill. Fine scenic effects. The trip to it is made in 
boats. 

The Great Seesaw, with revolving wheel on either end. 

The Loop the Loop. 

The Scenic Railway. 

The Ferris Wheel. 

The Observation Tower. 




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NEW STYLE TENEMENT, NEW YORK. OLD STYLE TENEMENT, NEW YORK. 



CHARITIES AND HOSPITALS 



P^or full details of this side of Xevv York visit the oitice ot 
the Charity Organization Society, 22d St. and Fourth Ave., and 
if much interested purchase the Eagle Almanac. Roughly, the 
most important points to be visited are the islands of the city 
institutions: Blackwell's, Ward's. Randalls— boat foot East 26th 
St.; Bellevuc Hospital, the city's charity hospital, foot East 26th 
St.; these other hospitals — Roosevelt (59th St. and Ninth Ave.), 
St. Luke's (ii3tb. St., Amsterdam Ave.), Long Island College 
(Henry and Amity Sts., Brooklyn — go over South Ferry from 
Battery), Presbyterian (Madison Ave. and 70th St.), Woman's 
(50th St. and Lexington Ave.), Nursery and Child's Hospital 
(571 Lexington Ave.), New York (15th St., near Fifth Ave.), 
Babies' Hosintal (Lexington Ave. and 55th St.). the .New York 
Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum (Sedgwick Ave. and Kingsbridge 
Road), the Hebrew Orphan Asylum (Amsterdam Ave. and 136th 
St.), New York Juvenile Asylum (176th St. and Amsterdam 
Ave.), Five Points House of Industry (155 Worth St.), the 
Hebrew Technical Institute (34 Stuyvesant St.). the Baron de 
Hirsch Trade School (64th St.. between Second and Third Aves.) 



''The Tenderloin;" New York's Foreign Quarters. 71 



"THE TENDERLOIN" 

A name bestowed upon that part of New York bounded by 
23d St., Seventh Ave., 426. St. and Lexington Ave., by the 
famous Police Inspector Williams, yclept _ "Slugger Williams," 
"because," said he, "as a police precinct it's the tenderloin of 
the steak." Greatly as New York has changed in twenty years 
the "Tenderloin" is still the "Tenderloin," the point where the 
push, go and bustle of metropolitan life is greater and most 
enticing, brightest after dark. Only now the upper end of the 
Tenderloin, from 34th to 42d Sts., has the bulk of the gayety 
instead of around 23d St., the case a few short years ago. 

Broadway is the Tenderloin's pivot. The new Rialto or prom- 
enade of actors is along Broadway's west side, from 35th to 
42d St. Over these streets is a parade every hour of the day 
or night. At 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning there is little let 
up. New York has a night population quite as distinctly as 
it has a day population, and this part of the city is its favorite 
place of assembly. Besides the streets, the most interesting 
thing about this quarter are the midnight meals and the thronged 
restaurants. 



NEW YORK'S FOREIGN QUARTERS 

No city of the world is more cosmopolitan, has so many 
peoples, sucla a shouldering together of nations. It was only 
the other day that a Russian Orthodox church was consecrated 
in New York, with much pomp and ceremony, near the corner 
of 97th St. and Fifth Ave. That was but an indication of the 
unnumbered hordes from European countries and from Western 
Asia that year by year cross the ocean for America. 

No small proportion of them settle in New York. Later they 
become ordinarv Americans, but for a time they keep by them- 
selves. The Ghetto Jews call the late arrivals of their race 
"greeners." All newly landed immigrants are that, and though 
the many drift away from the "quarters" and become rich the 
newcomers keep the "quarters" filled and their traditions and 
customs alive. 

Curious sights are thus to be seen by day and by night all 
over the town. To visit the Ghetto of the Jews, the great 
"East Side,", or one of the most interesting of the Italian 
colonies, take a Madison Ave. car to the corner of the Bowery 
and Grand St. For Jewry turn to the east along Grand St., 
the Ghetto's Broadway. Much misinformation has been written 
about the East Side, for there is much intelligence and wealth 
there, but it has its picturesque, foreign side. After walkmg 
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and thence into East Broadway. Much Old World life is to be 
seen. Such cafes as Maas's, or Lorber's, on Grand St., two 
blocks from the Bowery, should be visited. 

The Ghetto or the East Side is bounded by the Bowery on the 
west, Houston St. on the north, Catharine St. on the south 
and extends very nearly over to the East River. Across the 
Bowery, on Mulberry, Elizabeth and Mott Sts., several blocks 
above and below Grand St., is the Italian quarter of the Italians 
from the south of Italy. On the west side of New York, cen- 
tering on Sullivan and Thompson Sts. at Bleecker (take Broad- 
way car, get off at Bleecker St., walk west five blocks — 
Bleecker St. is just below Washington Square) is the great 
colony of Northern Italians. A third Italian colony centres 
on io6th St. on the East Side. Take Third Ave. car. 

Just south of the Italian colony first mentioned is China- 
town, on Pell, Mott and Doyers Sts. South of the Ghetto are 
the Greeks. North of the Ghetto, far east on Aves. A and B, 
farther east than First Ave., around 8th St., is the old German 
stronghold, "Klein Deutschland," now gradually breaking up. 
Along Second Ave. above 8th St. is "Little Hungary," with at 
least one noted restaurant, "Cafe Boulevard." Another Hun- 
garian restaurant is the Cafe Liberty on Houston St. (walk 
about three blocks east from Third Ave.) 

The Syrians are on Washington St. near the Battery. (Take 
Sixth Ave. Elevated to Battery Place,, walk one block west to 
Washington St.) The negro quarter is on the side streets out 
of Seventh Ave. above 23d St. The small French quarter is 
off Sixth Ave. just above 23d St. 

Brooklyn has several extraordinary foreign quarters. To 
visit the chief Italian colony cross the Hamilton Ferry from 
the Battery, and explore Union and President Sts. If the 
ferry be taken from East 42d or 23d St. to Broadway, Brooklyn, 
and thence a Broadway car to Leonard and Moore Sts., another 
great "Klein Deutschland" will be discovered, practically a 
city of Germany by itself. Here there is also an interesting 
Jewish quarter. By taking a Hamburg Ave. car from the same 
ferry one arrives after a half hour's ride at the Jewish settle- 
ment of Brownsville in Brooklyn's outskirts, a Polish town in its 
characteristics, and unquestionably worth visiting. 

For note on theatrical performances in Yiddish {Hebrew dia- 
lect) and Italian, see chapter "Galleries, Museums, Theatres 
and Music." 

In the Little Italics, both of New York and Brooklyn, there 
arc nearly alzuays to be tvitnessed very good marionette sliows. 
Inquire at the Italian druggists or cafe in the Mulberry St. 
quarter, Manhattan, and in the President St. (near East River) 
quarter of Brooklyn. 



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NEW YORK'S COUNTRYSIDE AND TROL- 
LEYING 

I-'or those who have some little time to spend in New York 
there is a splendid nearby countryside to he visited over Long 
Island through the Bronx and up into Westcliester, out 
through the villages and rural regions of New Jersey, over 
Staten Island. The number of trolley rides that may be taken 
from New York is innumerable, and in the same way there is 
scarcely a limit to the l)oat excursions that can be made. The 
territory of both is so com]iletely covered with routes that each 
needs a little book to itself. Such books the Eagle has issued in 
its "Trolley Exploring," and "Water Exploring," each lo cents, 
sent by mail postjiaid. Every New York resident should have 
one of each. 




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FORTS ABOUT NEW YORK 

The headquarters of the U. S. Army in New York is the 
Army Building, Whitehall St., just below Bowling Green (the 
end of Broadway). From the Battery a boat goes frequently 
to Governor's Island, the chief Army station, the quarters of 
the General commanding the "Department of the East." Gov- 
ernor's Island is in the Upper Bay. Its fortification is the old 
Fort Columbus. Passes are needed for all the forts. 

The important forts about the city are: 

I""ort Hamilton and Fort Lafayette, out in the Lower Bay, fac- 
ing it, I'ay Ridge, Brooklyn. Take Third Ave. car from Brook- 
lyn Bridge. 



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Fort Wadsworth, Staplcton, Statcn Island. I'^crry from Bat- 
tery to St. George, then trolley car. 

Fort Schuyler, Throg's Xe.k, Westchester, in Bronx Borough. 
Fort Totten, Bayside, Long Island. Fort Slocum, David's 
Island. The forts that guard the Sound entrances to the East 
River. Boat from Pier 13, East River. 

Fort Hancock, at Sandy Hook, N. J., oceanward point of 
Lower Bay. Boat from Pier 13, East River. 



RACING 

Jerome Park, the famous, up in the Bronx, once Westchester, 
has been done away with for some years and a reservoir now 
takes its place. The chief tracks about New York are at Morris 
Park (the Bronx), take Harlem R.R. at Grand Central Station, 
42d St., or trolley car from 129th St. and Third Ave.; Sheepshead 
Bay; Brighton; and the Brooklyn Jockey Club. The latter three 
are all on the outskirts of Brooklyn, close to Coney Island. Take 
Long Island train at Long Island City (East 34th St. ferry) or 
trolley cars from the Manhattan end of the Brooklyn Bridge. 

The season of 1903, moreover, is almost certain to be the 
last that Morris Park will see as a race course. This country- 
side that the actual city of New York has crept to is to be built 
over. In place of it the Westchester Racing Association has 
bought land for a $1,500,000 course on Long Island between 
Hempstead and Jamaica at Queens. The new course will be known 
as Belmont Park and will be completed for the opening of the 
season of 1904. Another great new track is building close by, 
the Metropolitan, near Jamaica, completed this spring. 



THE NAVY YARD 

Take I'lushing Ave. car from New York end of Brooklyn 
Bridge to main gate. Passes are required, but may be obtained 
by simply addressing "Captain of the Yard" and inclosing a 
stamped, self-addressed envelope, or apply personally at main 
entrance. Such a pass does not give permission, however, to 
board war vessels that may be lying here. These courtesies are 
to be had from the commander of each ship only. 

There is always enough going on at the Navy Yard to make 
a visit there highly pleasurable. The Yard lies in a small bay 
on the Long Island side of the East River. It is made uu of 
repair docks, foundries, machine shops, storehouses, barracks 
and officers' residences, arranged in streets. There are many 
interesting naval relics in a little enclosure known as Trophy 



Street Car and "L" Lines. 



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I'ark. A special pass will be required to visit Cob Dock on the 
farther side of the Yard, and reached by a ferry boat worked 
across the open water of the little bay on a cable. In Cob Dock 
some of the most interesting work of the Navy Yard is always 
to be found. The Brooklyn Eagle publishes a special guide 
book to the Navy Yard. 

At 167 Sands St., close to the Yard, is the handsome building 
presented by Miss Helen Gould, and known as the Naval Branch 
of the Y. M. C. A. 



STREET CAR AND "L" LINES 

There are four elevated lines on Manhattan Island, Sixth 
Third, Second and Ninth Aves. Each runs from the Harlem 
River to the Battery (South Ferry), the Third Ave. having 
spurs to the Brooklyn Bridge, the East 34th St. Ferry, the Grand 
Central Station (42d St.). 

The Second and Third Avenue Elevated have an extension 
up into Bronx Borough to Fordham (190th St.). In Brooklyn 
there are "Ls" on Fulton St. from the Bridge, on Broadway from 
the ferries, on Myrtle Ave., Lexington Ave. and Fifth Ave. to 
the city's limits. 




THK MANSION OF CHARLES M. SCHWAB THAT IS TO BE BUILT ON THE 
RIVERSIDE DRIVE, FACING THE HUDSON. 



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On Manhattan Island the chief surface lines from north to 
south are on Broadway, Sixth Ave., Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, 
Madison, Lexington, Third, Second, Amsterdam, Lenox and 
Columbus Aves. The most important cross town lines are Cham- 
bers, Grand, 14th, 23d, 34th, 42d, 59th, ii6th and 125th Sts. The 
Bronx lines have as their objective point Mount Vernon, and the 
chief ones go up Third Ave., Webster Ave. and the Boston Road 
(from 129th St. and Third Ave.) and up Jerome Ave. from Cen- 
tral Bridge, Seventh Ave. and Harlem River. 

A stage line runs up Fifth Avenue from Washington Square 
to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, another up Riverside Drive 
from Central Park West, 72d St. Gate. 

In Brooklyn the main surface lines run up Fulton St., (iates, 
Myrtiai DeKalb, Mushing, Seventli, l-'ifth, Tliird, .Xinth, Putnam, 
Aves. and Court St., from the I'ridge; and Hroadway, XosUand. 
Sumner, Rockaway Aves. and Lorimer St. from the Broadway 
ferry. 



CEMETERIES 

Besides Greenwood (pp. 16, 21) there are many famous New 
York City cemeteries. Nearly all lie in the Borough of Queens 
or on the outskirts of Brooklyn, and are best reached by the 
East 23d or East 42d St. ferries. 

WooDLAWK, one of the finest of these, is in Bronx Borougli, 
and is reached by railway from Grand Central Station. Trinity 
Cemetery is on the Hudson River bank at 155th St. (Amsterdam 
and Third Ave. trolley cars). The famous cemeteries of Long 
Island are Greenwood, Calvary, New Calvary, Cypress Hills, 
EVERGREKNS, LUTHERAN. Take cars from Brooklyn side of 
ferries above named. 



Aihiertisei)ie7its, 77 

NASSAU TRUST COMPANY 

BROOKLYN, N. Y. 

Capital $500,000.00 

Undivided Profits. 471.395.25 

Authorized to act as Executor, Trustee, Adininistrator Com- 
mittee, Guardian. Receiver, Assignee, Registrar, Transfer 
and Fiscal Agent. 

Interest paid on daily balances. Special rates on time deposits. 

Accounts of individuals, business firms, corporations, estates, 
etc., invited. 

Travelers' letters of credit and bankers' money orders issued. 

SAFE DEPOSIT VAULTS 

Andrkw T. Sullivan, - - - President 

William Dick, ).,,.. ^ .^ Harry F, Burns, Secretary 

> Vie© r residents 
John Truslow, » " Francis Weekes, Asst. Secy. 



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The largest distributor of 

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How to Buy Life Insurance 

THREE DOMINATING WORDS 

If we were asked the one word which brings or retards 
success in the business world, we would unhesitatingly name 
the word, Managetnenl . 

If we were asked the one word controlling barter and sale 
in the Ijusiness world, we would as unhesitatingly name the 
word, Iwyej-tigaiion. 

Investigation completed, if wc ^vere asked the one word 
w^hich dominates choice in the business world, we wovild name 
the word, Comparison. 

Management may make the stock of one railway company, 
for example, worth more than that of another, or worth less, 
or worthless. Investigation proves the fact and often the 
cause; comparison, one with another, dictates the price, the 
" ticker " tells the tale and sales are made accordingU-. 

No other business responds so readil3' to Management as 
Life Insurance, though in no other business is Investigation 
and Comparison so little practiced. 

The expert on 'Change investigates, compares, and is con- 
trolled by one, two, or a fe\v " points" in the ups and downs 
of the Stock market. Yet this same expert will buy his Life 
Insurance from one comi)an3' the dividends of which arc 50 per 
cent, or more lower than those of another. 

MANAGEMENT causes the difference; 
INVESTIGATION discovers the difference; 
COMPARISON })roves and niensures the difference. 

Send for Comparisons with all other Companies. 

ADDRESS 

NATHAN S. JONAS 

1028 Gates Avenue Brooklyn-New York 

AGENCY 

Horthoiestepn IVIutual Iiife Insurance Co> 

ASSETS, $165,042,435.33 

Insurance in force, $620,681 , 283.00 

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Safe 
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Boxes for 
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Transacts 
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Trust and 
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Adminis- 
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CAPITAL, SURPLUS AND PROFITS 

$2,400,000.00 



Accounts of Individuals, Firms and Corporations 

Solicited 



EDWARD MERRITT, ■ - President 
CLINTON L. ROSSITER, First Vice-President 

DA VID a. LEQGET, - Second Vice-President 

FREDERICK T. ALDRIDGE, - - Secretary 

WILLARD P. SCHENCK, - Ass't Secretary 



